MORE than 30,000 star fruit trees (belimbing) are neatly lining up the yards of the Blitar Town residents, East Java. Today, nearly 700 families there have star fruit trees, 200 of them are relatively new. In the past few years, Blitar Mayor, Djarot Saiful Hidayat, has indeed been preoccupied with the belimbing trees.

The residents of Karangsari, a subdistrict in the Sukorejo district, Blitar, has proven how important it is to plant belimbings. Si