Tangerine season - Happy season

Lai Vung is a land located between two large rivers in the South, the Tien River and the Hau River. Nature has endowed it with fresh water and fertile alluvium, so it has long been a land of good trees and sweet fruits. In particular, there is a famous pink tangerine garden, becoming a destination that attracts many tourists. If you have the opportunity to travel to Dong Thap, do not forget to visit the Lai Vung tangerine garden with lush, ripe, golden fruit trees all over the garden and enjoy the delicious pink tangerines, as well as rejoice with the people here every tangerine ripening season. Every year with a good harvest of tangerines is also the happiest year for tangerine growers. Please join Vietnam.vn to experience the tangerine harvest season and the joy of the tangerine growers through the photo series "Tangerine Season - Happy Season" by author Nguyen Hien Thanh. The photo series was taken in Dong Thap, and was submitted by the author to the Photo and Video Contest "Happy Vietnam - Happy Vietnam", organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Lai Vung district is known as the “kingdom” of pink grapefruit. Thanks to its special suitability to the local soil, pink grapefruit has quickly become a unique native fruit with the brand name “Lai Vung pink grapefruit”.

Lai Vung pink tangerine season usually falls around the second half of December and the beginning of January. The time from when the tree bears fruit until it is ripe and ready to harvest is about a month and a half. Tangerines are mainly grown in 3 communes along the Hau River: Long Hau, Tan Phuoc and Tan Thanh communes in Lai Vung district (Dong Thap).

This is also the time when tangerine gardens open to visitors and start trading.

The joy of gardeners in the harvest season of good priced tangerines.

After harvesting, farmers will put the grapefruit in baskets and bring them to the collection point.

At the gathering point, workers will carry out the process of classifying red grapefruit.

Pink grapefruit is classified into boxes according to traders' requirements and transported for consumption in regions across the country.

Currently, thousands of hectares of red tangerines are in the peak harvest season to serve the 2024 Lunar New Year market. The greatest joy of tangerine growers this year is a good harvest and good prices... What makes Lai Vung red tangerines famous, in addition to their delicious, sweet and beautiful quality, is that in recent years, gardeners in Lai Vung have also grown tangerines according to VietGAP standards, limiting the spraying of pesticides, and fertilizing according to a process that makes the fruit less susceptible to disease, ensuring safety for consumers. In addition, being granted an exclusive trademark certificate by the Department of Intellectual Property (Ministry of Science and Technology) makes Lai Vung red tangerines an even more popular specialty fruit.

In 2024, the Photo and Video Contest "Happy Vietnam - Happy Vietnam" continues to be organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications in coordination with the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists on the website https://happy.vietnam.vn for all Vietnamese citizens and foreigners aged 15 and over. The contest aims to honor individuals and groups with positive information products, making practical contributions to the propaganda and promotion of beautiful images of Vietnam to the world. Thereby helping people in the country, compatriots abroad and international friends access authentic images of the country, Vietnamese people, Vietnam's achievements in ensuring human rights, towards a happy Vietnam. Each contest category (photo and video) has the following prizes and prize values: - 01 Gold Medal: 70,000,000 VND - 02 Silver Medals: 20,000,000 VND - 03 Bronze Medals: 10,000,000 VND - 10 Encouragement Prizes: 5,000,000 VND - 01 most voted work: 5,000,000 VND The winning authors will be invited by the Organizing Committee to attend the Announcement Ceremony and Award Ceremony and Certificate on live television of Vietnam Television.

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