Long Dinh mat weaving craft offers jobs for locals

Long Dinh Village in Long Dinh commune, Chau Thanh district, Tien Giang province is famous for the craft of weaving sedge mats in southwestern Vietnam. It now offers jobs for over 400 locals.
Long Dinh mat weaving craft offers jobs for locals ảnh 1Long Dinh village is a famous hub of mat weaving craft itself in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, with 97 households and 417 workers practicing the craft (Photo: VNA)
Long Dinh mat weaving craft offers jobs for locals ảnh 2Long Dinh village has a history of 60 years in mat weaving craft that originated from migrants in Kim Son village, a well-known mat weaving village in the northern province of Ninh Binh (Photo: VNA)
Long Dinh mat weaving craft offers jobs for locals ảnh 3Each employee who can weave 4 to 5 pairs of mats a day can earn tens of thousands of VND per day, making their monthly income amount to 500 – 700 USD (Photo: VNA)
Long Dinh mat weaving craft offers jobs for locals ảnh 4Now many households own weaving machines that help increase the production and quality of the products (Photo: VNA)
Long Dinh mat weaving craft offers jobs for locals ảnh 5The mat’s high quality makes them popular domestically, and they are also exported to markets worldwide including the Republic of Korea, Japan and the US (Photo: VNA)
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