Development of handicrafts from coconut - the police need more solutions

In Ben Tre province has about 50 businesses and establishments producing handicrafts. Of these, about 37 businesses and establishments handicraft items made from coconut materials.

Development of handicrafts from coconut - the police need more solutions

According to Ben Tre Coconut Association, handicraft industry from coconut important role in the economic life - society in Ben Tre. With creativity combined with skillful hands, the artists took advantage of Ben Tre almost all parts of the coconut tree, creating hundreds of valuable products using very rich, contribute to improving coconut value chain, enrich and beautify the cultural characteristics of Ben Tre coconut on the ground. These products cater to tourists and the export value. However, crafts and handicrafts from coconut faces no restrictions solutions to solve a radical way.
In Ben Tre province has about 50 businesses and establishments producing handicrafts. Of these, about 37 businesses and establishments handicraft items made from coconut materials. However, most of the production facility is spontaneous, small-scale, less modern equipment, especially those who lack the design, market research and skilled workers, so many products Duplicate and utility models, less sophisticated products, unique for each manufacturer.
According to a senior enterprise in the production of handicraft items from coconuts said Ben Tre currently has approximately 1,000 product items of handicrafts from coconut trees. The designs are usually due to the base, to think, or at the request of customers and partly due to learning from other institutions. However, the copy of another design a bluff has created an urgent major manufacturing facility in the prestigious. Seeing this limitation, however, the production base is not interested in registering trademarks, industrial designs; by following the manufacturing facility, authorities have not yet effective solution to protect the base, though the previous owner had registered industrial design of the product.
Besides, due to the uncertainty of market demand, so much depends on the basis of intermediate customers, lack of initiative in planning production and consumption of products, production efficiency is not very high business ; no cohesion between villages, artisans and businesses in expanding production scale, professional teaching, providing market information, product consumption.
Despite many difficulties, limitations, but according to the experts, the development prospects of craft, art, Ben Tre coconut great. But for these products continue to develop sustainable solutions very close to the case.
When production began to grow, although the province has an area of large coconut, but according to the manufacturing facility items of handicrafts from coconut that we have the opportunity to contact began with the shortage of raw coconut wood, coconut or wood quality is very low. A few years ago, the price of coconut wood at only 60,000-70,000 VND / m, now priced at VND150,000 / m. Despite rising prices of coconut wood, but according to the production facilities, the increased commodity prices is limited due to the competition between the base together. This is a dilemma for the development, expansion of production and markets products of handicrafts from coconut trees.