Yen Chau mango festival kicks off

6/14/2018 - 3:14:41 PM

The second Yen Chau mango festival 2018 officially opened in Yen Chau district, Son La province on June 10, attracting a large number of visitors and local people.

The two-day festival aims 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.

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; folk games such as walking on stilts to pick mangoes or tugging.

Furthermore, the organising board has organised a number of tours to visit the mango gardan at Vung Lung village, Chieng Hac commune, and the famous cave in Yen Chau district.

On the occasion, Yen Chau disitrict also honoured ten outstanding fruit tree production households in the district.

Source: NDO

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