The Vietnam Salt Festival - Bac Lieu 2025 is not only a cultural event but also an important opportunity to honor and develop the traditional salt industry.
Opportunity to promote Bac Lieu salt brand
The Vietnam - Bac Lieu Salt Festival 2025 with the theme "Enhancing the value of Vietnamese salt" will take place from March 6 - 8, 2025. This event is organized by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in coordination with the People's Committee of Bac Lieu province, gathering about 100 booths to display and introduce salt products, OCOP products, modern salt processing equipment and technology.
With a history of over 100 years of salt production, Bac Lieu is striving to develop the salt industry sustainably, increase product value and expand the consumption market. This is an opportunity for the province to promote the Bac Lieu salt brand, attract investment and affirm the position of the salt industry on the economic map of Vietnam.
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| The Vietnam Salt Festival - Bac Lieu 2025 is expected to help the salt production industry "take off". Illustrative photo. |
Bac Lieu is one of the localities with the largest salt production area in the country, with salt quality highly appreciated thanks to favorable natural conditions. However, reality shows that the salt industry still faces many challenges, from unstable prices to competition with imported salt. Salt consumption still depends mainly on traders, there are not many cooperatives or businesses investing in deep processing to increase product value.
Therefore, the Vietnam - Bac Lieu Salt Festival 2025 is organized to honor the salt making profession, and at the same time is an opportunity for businesses, cooperatives and salt farmers to promote their brands and seek cooperation partners. According to provincial leaders, this event will help increase the value of local salt products, aiming to build a brand for clean salt, organic salt and expand domestic consumption and export markets.
Mr. Pham Van Thieu - Chairman of Bac Lieu Provincial People's Committee - said: " The Salt Festival is an important event, of strategic significance for the sustainable development of the salt making profession. This is an opportunity to honor the traditional salt making profession of the locality, contributing to the preservation of the salt making profession, developing and promoting culture and tourism, enhancing the position of the salt making profession of Bac Lieu. At the same time, honoring, preserving and developing the traditional salt making profession, enhancing the value of salt grains, thereby arousing the love of the traditional profession of generations ".
Opportunities for trade and tourism development
Within the framework of the Festival, about 100 booths will be organized, displaying a variety of salt products, advanced production equipment and models combining salt making and experiential tourism. This is an opportunity for businesses, cooperatives and salt farmers to access new technology, seek cooperation partners and improve production quality in a modern and sustainable direction.
In addition, specialized seminars will be held, focusing on solutions to improve product quality, adapt to climate change and expand consumer markets. One of the important activities is the seminar "Orientation and solutions for developing Bac Lieu salt tourism products", aiming to exploit the tourism potential associated with the salt industry, thereby helping to increase economic value and create more livelihoods for people.
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| Many salt products of Bac Lieu are popular with consumers. |
The highlight of the event is the Trade Promotion Fair for the collective economic sector and cooperatives - Bac Lieu 2025, where businesses and cooperatives have the opportunity to introduce products, seek partners and develop the salt industry value chain. In addition, visitors will participate in hands-on tours at Bac Lieu salt fields, witness the traditional salt-making process and interact with salt farmers.
In addition, the art program "Come to Bac Lieu to listen to traditional music" will bring a cultural space imbued with the Southern region, helping to promote the local image to domestic and foreign tourists.
Towards sustainable salt industry development
One of the important contents of the Vietnam Salt Festival - Bac Lieu 2025 is to promote the transformation of salt production model towards modernity and sustainability. In the context of climate change and increasingly competitive salt market, the application of advanced technology in production is inevitable to improve productivity and quality.
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| Mr. Pham Van Thieu - Chairman of Bac Lieu Provincial People's Committee - said that the province is implementing many strategies to develop the salt industry. |
Mr. Pham Van Thieu - Chairman of Bac Lieu Provincial People's Committee said that in order to develop Bac Lieu salt industry sustainably, in accordance with climate change conditions, creating a breakthrough in the coming years, the province will implement a number of plans and strategies such as strengthening the introduction and promotion of Bac Lieu salt industry through images and stories about salt making; introducing and promoting Bac Lieu salt products on e-commerce channels, forums, fairs and conferences.
Bac Lieu province also encourages and supports salt farmers to switch to the tarpaulin method, which helps shorten the salt crystallization time, limit impurities, and improve the whiteness and purity of salt. In addition, the province also aims to diversify salt products, not only stopping at regular table salt but also expanding to value-added products such as medicinal salt, bath salt, and high-quality food salt, contributing to increasing the value of the local salt industry.
In order to increase income for salt farmers and enhance the position of the salt industry, the province also promotes the linkage of the salt production - processing - consumption value chain. Specifically, salt cooperatives will be supported to sign long-term consumption contracts with enterprises, helping to ensure stable output. At the same time, the province integrates the development of craft village tourism, turning large salt fields into sightseeing and practical experiences for tourists. Community tourism models combining salt production and health care with sea salt will be invested in to both preserve traditional occupations and bring sustainable economic value.
To develop the Bac Lieu salt industry systematically, the province has proposed many policies to support salt farmers and businesses such as upgrading salt field infrastructure, improving transportation and irrigation systems to serve production and transportation. At the same time, the province supports product commercialization, helping salt products achieve 5-star OCOP certification, promoting consumption through e-commerce channels, supermarkets and exports.
| The 2025 Vietnam - Bac Lieu Salt Festival is scheduled to take place from March 6 to 8 in Dong Hai District and Bac Lieu City. The opening ceremony will take place at 8:00 p.m. on March 6 at Hung Vuong Square (Bac Lieu City). The cost of the event is about 15 billion VND, which Bac Lieu has called for socialization, not using the state budget. |
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