DURIANS FESTIVAL

Durian seasons is here! It's raining durian.

Durians replica are created in Segamat

Talk about durians, most people would think about Segamat durians. It has been an extraordinary season for the king of fruit in this district.

Johorean celebrated their love affair with the king of fruits by participating in durian-themed activities at Kampung Abdullah in Segamat. 

These three-day carnival will feature a variety of programs such as durian and local fruit eating festivals, durian bazaar sales, durian swaphotos, durian competitions and durian races will be held in addition for automotif and cultural performance. The team of the event is 'Everything Durian'.

Festival theme "Everything Durian" will becoming surprise to all the visitors where the visitors were presented with a variety of activities related to Durian such as Durian contest, a very special sale durians which durian price is less than the market price as well as many other interesting activities.

For the durian eating competition, each family represented by one parent and two children where they have to eat as much durians as they could withing seven minutes.

A dozen families competed, with the adults tasked to open the fruits using a parang, while all three in team would eat as much durian as they could. 

The teams competed enthusiastically with children as young as two years old devouring the creamy fruit one after another. They guzzled down mineral water provided before stuffing their mouths with more fruit.

Judges weighed the durians before and after the allocated time to ascertain how much was consumed by each team.

Other activities, there are also have durians colouring competition and lecture by experts on how to cultivate Musang King Durian commercially.

These festival was organized is to find and expand Johor durian breeding collections and list potential National Crop varieties to be developed and commercialized internationally.

Johor is the largest durian producer in the country followed by Pahang and Sarawak with an area of 15,630 hectares with production value of 692,464 tonnes in 2017. Segamat is Johor's largest producer of 4,372 hectares of crop area and production value of 10,546 tonnes in 2017 followed by Muar, Tangkak and Batu Pahat.

Date         : June annually
Duration  : Three days
Venue    : Padang Awam Majlis Perbandaran Segamat (MPS), Kampung Abdullah, Segamat.

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