A wide range of fruits are on placed on display at the 18thsafe and fresh fruit festival, which kicked off in Cho Lach district, the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre, on June 5.
BenTre (VNA) - A wide range of fruits are on placed on display at the 18th safe and fresh fruit festival, whichkicked off in Cho Lach district, the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre, on June 5.
The 5-day festival features 15 fruit booths and five food stalls. The highlightof the event is a fruit buffet area.
Many key products of Hung Khanh Trung B, Binh Thanh, Long Thoi, Hoa Nghia, SonDinh, Vinh Binh and Phu Phung communes and Cho Lach town are also brought atthe festival.
Contests of fruit and farm products, and a workshop on tourism developmentpotential in Cho Lach and Ben Tre in general will be arranged in the frameworkof the festival.
Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Huu Lap said thefestival helps promote exchange and experience sharing, and enhance supply-demandchains among enterprises, traders and farmers in and outside the province.
Theevent aims to find and select precious varieties of fruits and farm products, thusbuilding orientations for economic development and production in the locality, headded.-VNA
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