Tien Giang province rolls out plan to preserve craft villages

The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang aims to preserve and develop its 13 recognised traditional craft and craft villages.
Tien Giang province rolls out plan to preserve craft villages ảnh 1After being knitted, mats are dried under the sun in Long Dinh Mat Knitting Village in Tien Giang province’s Chau Thanh district. (Photo: VNA)
Tien Giang (VNS/VNA) - The Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang aimsto preserve and develop its 13 recognised traditional craft and craft villages.

One or two of them will be developed in combination with tourism by 2025 undera plan unveiled by the province People’s Committee to develop craft villages in2023-30.

The five traditional craft villages and eight craft villages make variousproducts such as vermicelli, rice paper, seafood, mats, bamboo knittingproducts and wooden furniture.

The Long Dinh Mat Knitting Village in Chau Thanh district, for instance, hasbeen operating for nearly 70 years and produces patterned sleeping mats withhigh quality and beautiful designs.

Its mats are well-known in the delta.

The plan envisages 70% of the villages functioning efficiently by 2025, around80% of their workers being trained or retrained to improve their skills andknowledge of basic information technology, and ensuring hygiene and laboursafety at their workplace.

The province also aims to have at least 50% of the villages making productsrecognised under the country’s One Commune-One Product programme.

It wants the average income of workers to increase by at least 150% from 2020and all production establishments to comply with environmental protectionregulations.

It has also set out various targets for 2030.

For instance, it expects at least 50% of the villages to have developed brandsfor their products.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development would implement the plan,Tran Hoang Nhat Nam, its deputy director, said.

It would help establishments in craft village participate in fairs andhandicrafts contests to introduce and promote their products, he said.

There are 3,600 households, 65 companies and other establishments and 11,867workers in traditional craft villages and craft villages.

The artisans earn 3.5-5 million VND (150-215 USD) a month on average.

The villages have played an important role in creating jobs and incomes for ruralpeople and improving their lives, helping reduce poverty and enabling creationof new-style rural areas.

However, they still have many limitations such as small scale and lack ofmechanisation, Vo Van Lap, head of the province’s Rural Development Sub-department,said.

Many establishments lack the resources needed to obtain advanced productiontechniques or expand, he said.

Most buy inputs from other areas, lack the infrastructure and services neededfor their production and lack linkages with travel companies to develop tourismservices, he said.

They also face a shortage of artisans many of whom prefer to work in industriesto earn higher incomes./.
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