- May 18, 2020
50,000 sunflowers are used for double cropping. They decorate the farmland at night after the chrysanthemums are shipped. [Ryukyu Shimpo/Yahoo! News]
On Monday, May 18, 2020, sunflower seeds from Hokuryu Town have blossomed into 50,000 sunflowers at Sunset Farm, a chrysanthemum farm in Gima, Yomitan Village, Okinawa Prefecture. At night, the farm is lit up using the same light bulbs used to grow chrysanthemums.