5th Ben Tre Coconut Festival

Thursday, 01/08/2019 16:10
As many of 1,000 people will take part in a performance of traditional clothes at a street event at the 5th Ben Tre Coconut Festival in the southern province of Ben Tre from November 14th to 20th.

Ben Tre to host fourth coconut festival next year

The press briefing in Hanoi (Source: CPV)

The information has been released at a press briefing on the festival held by Ben Tre provincial People’s Committee in Hanoi on July 31st.

The festival aims to honor local coconut and coconut-based products and contribute to attracting investment for coconut value chain and tourism development.

Diverse activities such as coconut cuisine festival, exhibition of coconut products, conference on coconut value chain, and a culture-art-tourism week which features a string of events like art performances, tour operation and folk games, will be held during the event.

The highlight of the event will be street artistic performances, coconut land beauty contest and experience tours. At the beauty contest, the swimsuit costume competition will be replaced by the performance of traditional clothes to honor the beauty of local people.

Ben Tre province accounts for half of the country’s coconut plantation land, and 80 percent of the Mekong Delta’s coconut cultivation areas. It earns average USD200 million from coconut exports each year, 25 percent of which is contributed by with processed products./.

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