At 8:00 p.m. on August 25, the People's Committee of Tra Vinh province opened the 100-year Tra Vinh wax coconut festival - a famous specialty fruit that has existed for a century in the locality. Along with this event, the province also opened the Vu Lan Thang Hoi Week in Cau Ke district in 2024.
Sand painting performance telling the historical story of wax coconut at the opening ceremony.
The heavy rain that lasted from 7pm until the opening ceremony did not stop thousands of locals and people from neighboring provinces from attending. This is the first time Tra Vinh has organized a festival dedicated to wax coconut.
In his opening speech, Mr. Le Van Han, Chairman of Tra Vinh Provincial People's Committee, said that the documents kept by the province showed that in 1924, Venerable Thach So brought coconut varieties from abroad to plant in Cau Ke district.
The first place this coconut variety was planted was Botumsakor Pagoda (Bo Tum Sa Co) - the place that locals call Market Pagoda (Cau Ke town).
“Due to the climate and soil characteristics of the Cau Ke area, coconut trees grow and produce wax fruit. Through the process of conservation and value promotion, wax coconut has become a specialty only found in Tra Vinh,” said Mr. Han.
Mr. Le Van Han, Chairman of Tra Vinh Provincial People's Committee, delivered the opening speech in heavy rain.
In appearance, wax coconut is similar to other normal coconuts. However, inside the wax coconut meat is thick, soft, and flexible, occupying most of the fruit with a little bit of thick coconut water.
Wax coconut is currently one of the crops with high economic value, occupying a large cultivation area in Cau Ke district.
In recent years, wax coconut has become a crop that is focused on and constantly increasing in area and output. Wax coconut is processed into various delicious, nutritious dishes with unique flavors.
In August 2012, Cau Ke wax coconut, Tra Vinh was officially listed as one of the 50 famous fruit specialties of Vietnam (according to the Vietnam Record Book Center).
Tra Vinh wax coconut.
“The Intellectual Property Office has also granted a certificate of registration of geographical indications for Tra Vinh wax coconut products; a trademark certifying Tra Vinh wax coconut for the wax coconut variety and a geographical indication logo towards establishing intellectual property rights for the trademark. This is a condition for Tra Vinh wax coconut to develop in the future,” the Chairman of the Tra Vinh Provincial People’s Committee said excitedly.
Over the past 100 years, wax coconut has been preserved and domesticated in Tra Vinh at Cau Ke, most concentrated in the communes of Hoa Tan, Phong Phu, and Phong Thanh.
People braved the rain to attend the opening ceremony.
Mr. Han said that in the strategy to upgrade the coconut value chain in the period of 2022 - 2025, the province will develop about 550 hectares of wax coconut.
In addition, this province also sets out orientations for building the Tra Vinh wax coconut brand with goals such as: planning growing areas, expanding cultivation, and producing in an organic direction.
Developing planting areas and applying advanced seed technology, especially embryo-cultured and tissue-cultured coconut varieties with high wax content, to improve productivity and product quality...
The 100-year Tra Vinh Wax Coconut Festival will take place for 7 days, from August 25 to 31, including 12 main activities, such as: a workshop on wax coconut trees; displaying delicious fruit specialties; a contest to prepare 100 delicious dishes from wax coconut...
On this occasion, the province will also introduce the Tra Vinh Wax Coconut Museum, established by Vicosap Company, to serve visitors.
It is known that the wax coconut meat is often ground with sugar, milk or added with durian, cocoa to use as a smoothie, or this coconut meat can be eaten directly. In addition, wax coconut is currently being processed by some establishments in Tra Vinh into wax coconut candy, dried wax coconut, wax coconut fibers, nutritional cakes...
With rare characteristics, the market price of wax coconut currently fluctuates from 120,000 - 150,000 VND/fruit, 12 - 15 times higher than that of regular coconuts.
Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/tra-vinh-lan-dau-to-chuc-festival-dua-sap-192240825174524757.htm
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