Fruit festival in Vietnam's Ninh Thuan in the offing

The first-ever fruit festival in Ninh Son District, Ninh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam will kick off on Friday, offering visitors a wide range of tropical fruits and local staple products.

The Ninh Son administration, the host of the festival, said the event, scheduled to take place in the district’s Tan Son Town, will feature eight main activities, including the display of local fruits, staple products, local food specialties, a fruit display contest, and a seminar on reorganizing production and improving the district’s capacity for supplying fruits for export.

According to Kieu Tan Thinh, chairman of the Ninh Son People’s Committee, visitors to the fruit festival can explore and try various types of fruits such as durians, mangosteens, rambutans, grapes, apples as well as handicraft items showcased at 18 booths.

Moreover, food stalls at the event will offer traditional food delights made from goat meat, lamb, beef, chicken, in addition to cold drink and snack stalls.

Also, fruits from the province’s Khanh Son District and neighboring Lam Dong Province’s Don Duong District will be on display at the two-day festival.

The festival is aimed at promoting local fruits and the agriculture sector in Ninh Son to tourists and businesses at home and from other localities, enabling local farmers to seek new business partners and exchange their farming experience with each other, Thinh added.

Lieu Thi Phuong, general director at Charm Group, which coordinates with Ninh Son to organize the festival, said that the fest would be an effective channel for tourism promotion, adding that her company is looking to find new fruit seedlings with economically high quality.

She revealed that many tropical fruits in Lam Son Commune, Ninh Son District are grown using organic farming methods, thereby making positive contributions to community health.

These days, orchard owners in Lam Son have been taking great care of their orchards to make good preparations for the upcoming festival.

Duong Dang Minh, head of the agriculture and rural development division in the district, said fruits grown in Lam Son secured geographical indication tags in 2018.

Local orchard owners mainly sold their fruits to traders before, but now they are focusing on developing ecotourism, so they mostly offer the fruits to visitors to the orchards, Minh said.

To develop the orchards in the long run, local authorities frequently call on farmers to improve the quality of their farming areas and seek new fruit seedlings in order to diversify the fruit supply, Minh stressed.

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