Coconut handicrafts increasingly attractive
Ben Tre is well endowed with charming water landscape, the lush orchards, the traditional craft villages has created attractive for domestic and foreign tourists.
To Ben Tre, where the first visitors also caught images of coconut trees. Coconuts have tied Ben Tre people for centuries, from the war, labor and production, to coconut farmers and Ben Tre has created value not only in economic terms but even in terms of culture. Coconut is used in food, in the construction of houses, in poetry and products unique handicrafts, souvenirs are meaningful when visitors from near and far to visit Ben Tre.
Ben Tre coconut growing area near 60.000ha, annual output of more than 500 million left, the supply for domestic and foreign markets. Exploiting the potential advantages of coconut trees, the locals have launched many products bearing the distinctive look of the province. Not only for our coconut sweetness of pure water cool, delicious, but also made into handicrafts items very nice and neat. The handicraft products made from coconut tree such as coconut wood, coconut shell, scrub, leaves, fibers, shell ... has become a valuable product in the market at home and abroad. Coconut handicraft profession but only flourish in recent years but has become a profession contributes more jobs for local workers, creating an additional revenue stream, contributing to improving the quality enrich their lives and their country.
Ben Tre tens premises coconut handicrafts large scale such as art establishments Kim Tu, Hung Tien art facility, coconut art facility Ngoc Tuan, Fujian basis to (Chau Thanh ), the basis of handicraft School of Banking, Yen Thanh basis (the city of Ben Tre), Thanh Liem art facility (Mo Cay Nam), Thanh Nhan basis (Giong Trom) ... Each facility has come on more than a dozen other active satellites are scattered throughout the district. Products from this facility will create supply for domestic and foreign market orders, annual exports to some countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea, India, USA, UK, Sweden Si, ... in addition, in the promotion of fair trade - tourism in the province, the region and abroad, the handicraft products are also introduced to the visitors, with an aim to bring the art outreach more on the international market, rebranding and expanding distribution network.
Previously, in Ben Tre professional production of handicrafts items from coconut material is not a formal profession, and self development, only a few households art homemade coconut to decorate indoors or donations to relatives and friends. Later, when the economy - Ben Tre society grows, especially Ben Tre travel more and more international travelers are known to produce traditional occupations related to art coconut grown increasingly strong, broad and become a major economic sector, contributing to economic restructuring for the people. The people of the coconut with skillful hands, talented plus aesthetic has created a new profession, convert the low value of the coconut tree coconut handicraft products with "soul", high art value, excellent, with hundreds of plentiful and unique. In addition, the production base of handicraft items Coconut become tourist attractions to visit, learn, contribute to one of the highlights of the tour program hick is be exploited in Ben Tre.
Currently, the coconut handicraft products were artists created nearly 500 diverse products, such as handbags, purses, chopsticks, spoons, masks, night light, doll, clock cases, and the things in everyday life, ... is used to give the broom outside, through the skillful hands of craftsmen also be woven into the fine art flower bouquets, gift baskets, ... Rub coconut can turned into lanterns with various designs.
Ben Tre residents increasingly more fond of coconut trees through new discoveries about the benefits and uses, as well as the handicraft products made from coconut palms in life. In the era of economic integration today, to develop a sustainable, long-term, coconut artists currently plying inquiry, innovation, creativity of design, style, seeks to combine ingredients coconut with other materials such as rattan, bamboo, leaves to enhance the aesthetics of coconut handicraft products as well as investment in market research, find outlets for products with long-term development strategy. In the tour program to visit Ben Tre River, visitors to tour the manufacturing facilities handicraft products of coconut, witnessing the stage to create a sophisticated art products and high art value. In the tourist attractions are the souvenir stalls displaying and introducing visitors to hundreds of different handicraft products.
