Looking from a height on the plane, foreign tourists see dragon fruit gardens lit up at night with colorful shapes standing out on a black background.
Brad Stewart account posted a video looking from the plane window during a night flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Australia in September, attracting more than 14 million views on the Tik Tok platform. The video recorded scenes of multicolored shapes glowing in the night that Brad Stewart described as “not knowing what they were” and asked the online community to answer.
In response to the male tourist’s question, there were nearly 7,000 explanatory comments from netizens. Similar to Brad Stewart, many foreigners also wondered about this strange scene. Some people think it’s confetti. Account Jebediah Spoonbill commented that it was a bowling mat. Some people couldn’t guess exactly what the object was, but from a height above the plane, it looked like multicolored sticky notes.
The video also attracted many Vietnamese people to interact. Accounts from Vietnam all confirm that the strange sight is dragon fruit fields lit up at night. The location where the plane passed by may be in Binh Thuan province. Brad Stewart expressed his surprise and thanked him after having his questions answered.
Going through the areas of Ham Thuan Bac, Ham Thuan Nam or Bac Binh districts, visitors can encounter stretching dragon fruit gardens. Some dragon fruit gardens such as those in Ham My commune, Ham Thuan Nam district are also open for tourists to visit and experience. Dragon fruit garden in Ham My commune is about 30 km from Mui Ne, Phan Thiet city.
Mr. Phan Van Tan, Deputy Director of Binh Thuan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said the whole province grows about 27,000 hectares of dragon fruit, yielding over 500,000 tons per year. Cultivated naturally, dragon fruit only produces fruit during the rainy season from May to October. To produce fruit in the off-season, garden owners must turn on electric lights in the garden. A dragon fruit garden can light 2-3 generations per year. At night, the gardens light up, and from a height on the plane, you can see colorful shapes like in the video posted by Brad Stewart’s account.
The technique of lighting dragon fruits to produce fruit in the off-season has been applied by Binh Thuan farmers since around the 1990s. At that time, a farmer in Ham Thuan Bac district accidentally installed a light bulb to warm the ducks in the garden, and suddenly discovered the The dragon fruit pillar next to it produces flowers. Since then, local growers have begun to apply the lighting technique to off-season production, giving fruit all year round. After traditional incandescent lights, farmers switched to compact lights and now LED lights that consume more energy.
Dragon fruit was also a keyword that created waves in the online community last year when a food company launched dragon fruit instant noodles. The lyrics “first time dragon fruit is in instant noodles” to advertise this product appeared on videos on many social networking platforms, attracting millions of views.
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