First Fruit Festival closes in Tien Giang

08:04, 26/04/2010

The first Vietnamese Fruit Festival closed in Tien Giang province’s My Tho city on April 24. The six-day festival attracted over 800,000 visitors and organized four workshops relating to fruit development and tourism.

The first Vietnamese Fruit Festival closed in Tien Giang province’s My Tho city on April 24. The six-day festival attracted over 800,000 visitors and organized four workshops relating to fruit development and tourism.

 

More than 300 enterprises, cooperatives from 28 provinces and cities nationwide participated in this event with 822 stalls.  

Dragon, one of four supernatural creatures in tribute to 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi

At the closing ceremony, the organising board awarded 88 golden cups “For the Cause of Developing the quality of Vietnamese fruits and food hygiene” for 18 enterprises, 30 scientists and 40 institutes, schools and branches in the field; the organizers also honoured 61 creative farmers and recognised 28 green destinations in 12 provinces and cities across the country.

 

The festival also approved four Vietnamese records the longest graffiti painting of a dragon, the four supernatural creatures in tribute to the 1000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi, the largest map of Vietnam and the biggest dragon gate, all made of fruit.

Reported by P.V