The fourth Coconut Festival was launched in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre on April 7.

An art performance at the launching ceremony.

Themed Vietnam’s coconut palm in integration and development, the festival aims to introduce and promote Ben Tre’s coconut industry as well as to provide a forum for coconut farmers and enterprises to share experience and information on coconut growing, processing and consumption.

The event includes an art installation space of coconuts and coconut products, a cuisine festival, contests, a ceremony to honour coconut farmers and workshops relating to the industry’s development.

Ben Tre has about 63,000 ha of coconut palms, the country’s largest coconut plantation, yielding about 500 million coconut per year.

Coconut products are being exported to 68 countries and territories around the world, valued at more than 200 million USD annually.

Source: VNA