Yen Chau mango festival kicked off

The festival aimed to introduce and promote the brand name of Yen Chau mango; honour mango growers; create opportunities for mango growers to exchange and improve their knowledge, experience planting, and create valuable products from the mango.

Meanwhile, the festival is considered as an occasion to attract investors, and create opportunities for cooperation between mango growers and businesses in the province and other provinces.

Lu Van Cuong, Chairman of Yen Chau District People's Committee stated that, in order to ensure the output and bring high and stable income to local people, Yen Chau district has planned to consume the products right from the beginning of the year.

Additionally, the district also actively promotes the products to distributors in provinces and cities across the country as well as exporters in Son La.

The festival includes a series of activities, such as organising 30 booths to display mangoes, longans, and plums, agricultural products, handicrafts of the district; a mango picking contest; a fishing contest at Suoi Vat; art performance; folk games such as walking on stilts to pick mangoes or tugging.

As report, Son La is the fifth locality in the country following Dong Thap, Vinh Long, An Giang and Tien Giang and the first in the north to export mangoes to these high potential markets.

Vietnamese mangoes have been exported to 40 countries and territories worldwide, including Japan, the Republic of Korea, Taiwan (China), the EU, Australia, the US, the UK and Canada. It is the sixth fruit of Vietnam to be exported to the US, after dragon fruit, rambutan, longan, lychee and star apple.