Thousands of tourists and people enjoy enjoying and eating free rambutan at the Long Khanh fruit festival.
On the evening of June 15, Dong Nai Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in coordination with Long Khanh City People's Committee organized fruit Festival the same week honoring OCOP fruits and products in Dong Nai province in 2023.
Accordingly, the festival takes place from June 15 to June 23 with 40 display booths, product introduction Typical fruits and agricultural products from farmer households, business households, and enterprises from districts and cities in the area.
Throughout the program, there are many activities such as introducing and selling typical local agricultural products and fruits; artistic fruit display; durian export ceremony to China...
In particular, visitors who come to have fun at the festival will be free to enjoy rambutan fruit. During the festival, the organizers will display more than 2.3 tons of rambutan to serve visitors for free.
On the opening night, thousands of people and tourists in Long Khanh City and neighboring districts came to participate in the festival. Here, visitors enjoyed enjoying free rambutans and only a short while later, all the fruit here was consumed.
Mr. Nguyen Son Hung, vice chairman of Dong Nai Provincial People's Committee, said this is an important event to honor typical gardeners, promote and introduce key, high-quality fruits and local OCOP products. direction.
The festival is also a meeting place for managers, scientists, businesses and farmers to exchange, learn, connect and cooperate to expand agricultural product markets.
Especially fruits and OCOP products, linked to development Ecotourism agriculture, contributing to promoting the process of linking the development of commodity production, forming value chains in agricultural production...
“The festival aims to introduce to a large number of people the unique, rich and diverse types of high-quality fruits of Dong Nai province in general and Long Khanh city in particular.
At the same time, it is a place to honor the labor achievements of farmers and attract tourists to develop eco-tourism, gradually building a value chain for a number of key local products in a sustainable manner. ", Mr. Hung emphasized.
The place with the largest banana area in the country
Dong Nai is forming a large concentrated fruit growing area of the country with an area of about 76,000 hectares, producing 700,000 tons of fruits of all kinds such as: rambutan, grapefruit, durian, mangosteen, mango, banana... Of which, the largest banana area in the country, accounting for 70% in the Southeast region; Durian area ranks 4th in the country and ranks first in the Southeast.
Over the past years, Dong Nai has established 140 growing area codes and 81 packaging facilities for export (bananas, jackfruit, dragon fruit, mango, rambutan, lemon, durian, longan, lychee, watermelon). . Of these, there are 103 growing area codes serving the Chinese market and 37 growing area codes for export to markets in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the EU,...
In addition, Dong Nai currently has 150 products meeting OCOP standards and 63 products of which meet 4-star standards.
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