The fourth annual week-long coconut festival wrapped up in the southernprovince of Ben Tre on April 13, attracting hundreds of thousands ofvisitors and raking in nearly 20 billion VND (950,000 USD) in revenue.
This year’s festival offered 17 different events,including exhibitions, trade fairs, a cultural-arts and sport week, acoconut food festival, a cuisine competition and a workshop on the roleof credit in farm produce for export in the Mekong Delta.
The fair brought together over 250 domestic and foreign firmsdisplaying products at 700 booths, notably a variety of handicrafts madefrom coconut shells, leaves and flesh like coconut facial masks andmusical instruments.
An art installation of a 400metre coconut road covers 14,000 square metres in Cai Coi park, My ThachAn commune, divided into three spaces: “ Dua mai dom bong ” (Coconutflowers blossoming), “ Mot thoang que dua ” (A glimpse of coconut land),and “ Que dua ngay moi ” (Coconut land on new day).
The space “ Mot thoang que dua” portrayed images of the past idyllic coconut land, its cuisine and people.
A highlight of the festival is a coconut village day across 164 communes, luring tens of thousands of travellers.
Ben Tre province is home to 163,000 households farming on 63,000hectares of coconut trees. They produce 500 million coconuts and shipabout 200 million USD worth of coconut products abroad annually.
In the first quarter of this year, this southern coconut land earned 35.2 million USD from exports, down 16.9 percent yearly.-VNA
This year’s festival offered 17 different events,including exhibitions, trade fairs, a cultural-arts and sport week, acoconut food festival, a cuisine competition and a workshop on the roleof credit in farm produce for export in the Mekong Delta.
The fair brought together over 250 domestic and foreign firmsdisplaying products at 700 booths, notably a variety of handicrafts madefrom coconut shells, leaves and flesh like coconut facial masks andmusical instruments.
An art installation of a 400metre coconut road covers 14,000 square metres in Cai Coi park, My ThachAn commune, divided into three spaces: “ Dua mai dom bong ” (Coconutflowers blossoming), “ Mot thoang que dua ” (A glimpse of coconut land),and “ Que dua ngay moi ” (Coconut land on new day).
The space “ Mot thoang que dua” portrayed images of the past idyllic coconut land, its cuisine and people.
A highlight of the festival is a coconut village day across 164 communes, luring tens of thousands of travellers.
Ben Tre province is home to 163,000 households farming on 63,000hectares of coconut trees. They produce 500 million coconuts and shipabout 200 million USD worth of coconut products abroad annually.
In the first quarter of this year, this southern coconut land earned 35.2 million USD from exports, down 16.9 percent yearly.-VNA
