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Festival promotes Thai Nguyen tea products

The annual Spring Tea Festival was opened in Thai Nguyen City, the northern Thai Nguyen province, on the 12th day of the first lunar month (February 8), drawing crowds of visitors.
Festival promotes Thai Nguyen tea products ảnh 1Mannually drying tea at the festival (Source: VNA)

Thai Nguyen (VNA) – The annual SpringTea Festival was opened in Thai Nguyen City, the northern Thai Nguyen province,on the 12th day of the first lunar month (February 8), drawingcrowds of domestic and international visitors.

The event comprises numerous activities,including parading old tea trees and tea drying contests.

Tea is the strategic product of Thai Nguyen. Overthe past 20 years, tea trees have provided high economic value and jobs fortens of thousands of labourers. Thai Nguyen tea in general and Tan Cuong tea inparticular have been household names in Vietnam since old time.

Currently, the province has nearly 1,500 hectaresof tea growing area, producing 19,000 tonnes of fresh tea buds per year,generating 180 million VND per hectare per year.

Over the past five years, the locality has madeefforts to expand market for its tea products, attract foreign investment intea farming and processing, while encouraging local farmers to produce safe teaand improve tea quality.

Nine cooperatives in Phuc Xuan, Phuc Triu, TanCuong communes, Thai Nguyen city have been granted certificates for its safetea products, with the involvement of nearly 300 households farming on a combinedarea of 110 hectares.

In order to promote the Tan Cuong trademark oflocal tea, the Thai Nguyen provincial People’s Committee has designated the TanCuong tea growing area as tourism site, which spreads across six communes ofTan Cuong, Phuc Triu, Phuc Xuan, Thinh Duc, Quyet Thang and Phuc Ha.

According to Vice Chairman of the Thai NguyenCity People’s Committee Quan Chi Cong, the city will continue to implement a projectto promote the Tan Cuong trademark, with the annual Spring Tea Festival being partof the effort./.
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