Visitors at Sa Dec flower village, a popular agrotourism site in Dong Thap province (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNS/VNA) - The Mekong Delta province of DongThap is emerging as an agrotourism destination with its increasing adoption ofadvanced farming models to breed fish and grow rice, tropical fruits,vegetables and flowers.
Ngo Quang Tuyen, deputy director of the provincial Department of Culture,Sports and Tourism, said the province had huge potential for agrotourism, whichhas already grown sharply in recent years.
Many owners of orchards and flower gardens and lotus fields offer tourismservices, resulting in diversifying the province’s tourism products, Tuyen said.
Agrotourism and community-based tourism enable sustainable economic development,he said.
In recent years the province has increasingly adopted advanced farming modelsto grow flowers and ornamental plants in greenhouses, grow mango to Vietnameseand global good agricultural practice standards, grow rice to clean productstandards and breed tra fish to quality standards such asVietGAP and global GAP, according to the province's Department of Agricultureand Rural Development.
The largest tra fish producer in the delta, Dong Thap has 2,450hectares of ponds which yield more than 470,000 tonnes a year.
The province also tops in area under mango with around 9,300 hectares, andproduces more than 100,000 tonnes a year.
As the country’s third largest rice producer, it has 520,000hectares under the grain and produces 3.3 million tonnes of paddy a year.
Sa Dec flower village in the province’s Tan Quy Dong ward grows more than 2,000varieties of flowers on an area of 520ha.
The flower village welcomed more than one million visitors last year, including40,000 foreigners.
Ngo Quang Tuyen, deputy director of the provincial Department of Culture,Sports and Tourism, said the province had huge potential for agrotourism, whichhas already grown sharply in recent years.
Many owners of orchards and flower gardens and lotus fields offer tourismservices, resulting in diversifying the province’s tourism products, Tuyen said.
Agrotourism and community-based tourism enable sustainable economic development,he said.
In recent years the province has increasingly adopted advanced farming modelsto grow flowers and ornamental plants in greenhouses, grow mango to Vietnameseand global good agricultural practice standards, grow rice to clean productstandards and breed tra fish to quality standards such asVietGAP and global GAP, according to the province's Department of Agricultureand Rural Development.
The largest tra fish producer in the delta, Dong Thap has 2,450hectares of ponds which yield more than 470,000 tonnes a year.
The province also tops in area under mango with around 9,300 hectares, andproduces more than 100,000 tonnes a year.
As the country’s third largest rice producer, it has 520,000hectares under the grain and produces 3.3 million tonnes of paddy a year.
Sa Dec flower village in the province’s Tan Quy Dong ward grows more than 2,000varieties of flowers on an area of 520ha.
The flower village welcomed more than one million visitors last year, including40,000 foreigners.
Thap Muoi lotus fields,a popular agrotourism site, gets more than 10,000 visitors a month, mostly fromHCM City.
Mango and longan orchards at Tan Thuan Dong tourist village in Cao Lanh townreceived more than 3,000 foreign tourists and 25,000 local visitors in the lasttwo years.
Eight mandarin orange orchards in Lai Vung district received 75,000 tourists inthe last three years, earning 24 billion VND (1.03 million USD) by providingthem various services.
The Ecology Farming Corporation (Ecofarm) has invested in a hi-tech farm inThanh Binh district with a 30,000-sq.m greenhouse for growing melon and severalvarieties of flowers. The farm has also invested in agrotourism.
Nguyen Hong Quang, its chairman, said at the farm tourists get first-handexperience of farming work and taste fresh fruits and other agriculturalproduce besides delicious local foods./.
Mango and longan orchards at Tan Thuan Dong tourist village in Cao Lanh townreceived more than 3,000 foreign tourists and 25,000 local visitors in the lasttwo years.
Eight mandarin orange orchards in Lai Vung district received 75,000 tourists inthe last three years, earning 24 billion VND (1.03 million USD) by providingthem various services.
The Ecology Farming Corporation (Ecofarm) has invested in a hi-tech farm inThanh Binh district with a 30,000-sq.m greenhouse for growing melon and severalvarieties of flowers. The farm has also invested in agrotourism.
Nguyen Hong Quang, its chairman, said at the farm tourists get first-handexperience of farming work and taste fresh fruits and other agriculturalproduce besides delicious local foods./.
VNA
