The sixth Buon Ma Thuot Coffee and the 2017 Central Highlands Gong Culture Festival concluded in Buon Ma Thuot city in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on March 13.
The Street Festival, part of the Buon Ma Thuot Coffee and Central Highlands Gongs Culture Festival 2017 in Buon Ma Thuot city, Dak Lak province. (Source: VNA)
Dak Lak (VNA) – The sixth Buon Ma Thuot Coffee and the 2017 Central Highlands Gong CultureFestival concluded in Buon Ma Thuot city in the Central Highlands province ofDak Lak on March 13.
According to theorganizing board, around 20,000 local and international visitors came to theweek-long festivals to enjoy coffee and cultural and sports activities representingthe unique cultural cachet of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands.
The Buon MaThuot coffee festival had 12 main activities, with the highlight being thecoffee exhibition fair featuring 734 booths from 184 enterprises, including 58booths from 12 foreign enterprises.
An investment promotionconference organised during the festival saw the granting of approval, investmentcertificates and the signing of investment MoUs to 25 projects in the region worth 88 trillionVND (four billion USD) in total.
Thematicseminars focusing on coffee and agricultural development in the CentralHighlands attracted large numbers of policy makers, scientists andbusinesspeople.
The CentralHighlands Gong Culture Festival, with the participation of nearly 600 artisans,local and international artists, aimed to raise awareness of preserving andpromoting the values of the gong space culture,which is recognised by UNESCO as part of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity Culture Space, in the context of internationalintegration.
The Central Highlands, with around 500,000 ha under coffee, is thelargest coffee-growing region in Vietnam. The country has about 643,160ha ofland for coffee trees at present, and exports an average of 1.2-1.5 milliontonnes of coffee each year in the past 10 years.
♛ Vietnam is the second-largestcoffee exporter in the world, following Brazil.-VNA
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged the Central Highlands region to develop into a prosperous area by promoting its biodiversity, cultural values and organic agriculture.
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The Street Festival, part of the Buon Ma Thuot Coffee and Central Highlands Gongs Culture Festival 2017 in Buon Ma Thuot city, Dak Lak province. (Source: VNA)
