Big coffee festival to be kicked off

PANO - Various activities will be held at the 5^th Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival from March 9^th to 12^th in Buon Ma Thuot city, Dak Lak province.

Buon Ma Thuot is famous for high quality coffee. Photo: gialai.gov.vn

At a press conference on January 22^nd in Ho Chi Minh City, Dinh Van Khiet, Vice Chairman of Dak Lak provincial People’s Committee, announced that the festival, themed “Buon Ma Thuot-Historical spring roads”, aims at popularizing the “Buon Ma Thuot coffee” brand, honouring businesses with high quality coffee products and promoting trade and investment for local socio-economic development as well.

This year’s festival will include a photo exhibition “The journey of Buon Ma Thuot–Dak Lak coffee”, an exhibition of objects and photos highlighting the 40^th anniversary of the Buon Ma Thuot Victory, a demonstration of low-level fireworks, and a seminars on the sustainable development for Buon Ma Thuot coffee, to name but a few.

The opening ceremony will be held at 8pm on March 10^th and broadcast live on channels of Vietnam Television and other local televisions.

Translated by Trung Thanh