Thai Nguyen festival honours tea processing industry
The 4th Thai Nguyen – Vietnam Tea Festival will be organised in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on April 17-19 to promote Vietnamese tea products, honour villages, producers and the tea processing industry as well as introduced local tea to domestic and international market.
Thai Nguyen is the country’s second largest tea producer after the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. (Photo: VNA)
Thai Nguyen (VNA) – The 4th Thai Nguyen – Vietnam Tea Festival willbe organised in the northern province of Thai Nguyen on April 17-19 to promoteVietnamese tea products, honour villages, producers and the tea processing industryas well as introduced local tea to domestic and international market.
The festival will feature a wide range of activities, including an openingceremony, closing ceremony, a tea culture festival, a beauty contest, andconference on improving Thai Nguyen tea value and brand.
Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Duong Van Luong said thatthe festival offers a good opportunity for tea producers and traders toexchange experience, as well as set up relations with domestic and foreignpartners, helping local tea reach out to the world.
Thai Nguyen,located 75 kilometres to the north of Hanoi, is the country’s second largesttea producer after the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. Thai Nguyen iswell-known for its green, aromatic and black teas. Tea plants have been grownin the province for around 100 years.
Currently, Thai Nguyen province is home to more than22,000 hectares of tea, with average output of 220,000 tonnes of fresh tea leaveseach year. More than 80 percent of the local tea area is grown into VietGAPstandard.
Local tea has been sold in China’s Taiwan, China, the Republic of Korea,Pakistan, and several fastidious markets like the EU and North America.
Under the project on increasing added value and sustainably developing ThaiNguyen tea brand during 2017-2020, the province is striving to have 30 percentof its tea planting area certified with VietGAP standard, and develop at leastone high-tech tea production zone in each district, town and city.
Besides, the province targets 30 percent of its tea output labeled withdomestic trademark protection and joining in the global value chain, and 20percent of its high-quality exported to international markets./.
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Thai Nguyen is the country’s second largest tea producer after the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. (Photo: VNA) 
