Mekong Delta - Long An Industry and Trade Fair 2022: Opportunities for connection and trade promotion

Opportunities for cooperation and product consumption

In the early days, the fair attracted a large number of people, especially at night. Mr. Tran La Binh - employee of the Trade Promotion Center (Hai Duong Department of Industry and Trade), said: “The center introduces four key products of Hai Duong including green bean cake, dried glutinous corn, vermicelli and rice noodles. We promote and invite customers to try our products to get more feedback to improve them. I'm very excited because many customers try and buy products at the store, some even ask for the address to buy later."

Leaders of provincial departments and agencies visit booths 

In addition to trade booths, the fair also has many booths of production facilities in the province and other provinces and cities in the Mekong Delta region. They are carefully invested and eye-catching so that visitors can easily recognize the featured products. At each one, in addition to trade promotion staff, there are also establishment owners and cooperatives to introduce products to consumers.

Mr. Nguyen Huu Cong - owner of Sau Cong Sweet passion fruit Facility (Soc Trang Province) said: “The products that I introduced at the fair are sweet passion fruit and java lemongrass. Although the fair has just opened, the number of customers is very large. This is really an opportunity for us to promote our products to consumers. I hope to connect with more customers through this fair."

Mr. Nguyen Huu Cong advises and introduces his products to visitors

The sweet passion fruit is an exclusive product that was bred from the passion fruit of Columbia (South Africa) with the with the wild maracuja by Mr. Nguyen Huu Cong. Thanks to that, he and many farmers in Soc Trang province in particular and farmers in other provinces and cities have more income from a delicious and nutritious fruit.

Director of Go Den Wine Production and Trading Joint Stock Company (Ben Luc District) - Dang Thanh Hung informed: “We introduced 5 4-star OCOP products at the fair. In my opinion, this fair is the largest scale ever. I believe this event will create good results for the connection between businesses."

Director of Hoang Ngoc Global Co., Ltd (Duc Hue district) - Phan Thi Ngoc Bich shared: “We have products that are processed from ginseng such as dried ginseng, ginseng powder, cereal tea, ginseng honey, ginseng wine. Through the fair, we also connected some new partners.”

Leaders of departments and branches visited the provincial booths

When sellers and customers are connected, the fair has done its role well. That is to open up opportunities for trade promotion and connection as affirmed in the opening speech of the fair by Deputy Director of the Trade Promotion Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade) - Le Hoang Tai: “This event is a large-scale trade promotion activity of the Industry and Trade sector, creating conditions for enterprises and cooperatives of Long An province, the Mekong Delta region in particular and the whole country in general to introduce specific products, strengths to know the needs and tastes of customers. It is also an opportunity for businesses, cooperatives and trade promotion organizations to meet, exchange and find partners, strengthen linkages and expand markets”.

“With a scale of over 500 booths in a variety of sectors of units and businesses from 30 provinces and cities across the country and many diverse activities, I fully believe that this is a good opportunity for organizations and localities display and promote potential products, strengths and achievements of socio-economic development "- Mr. Le Hoang Tai affirmed.

Spread the trend of consuming Vietnamese goods

According to Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee - Nguyen Minh Lam, the target of this fair is to create the best opportunity for localities and businesses to display and introduce their economic potential, strengths and typical products, OCOP Vietnam products to domestic consumers.

An employee of Chanh Viet Investment and Trading Joint Stock Company (Ben Luc District) introduces products to customers

At the same time, the fair promotes connections between localities and businesses of provinces and cities, contributing to the effective implementation of solutions to restore production development, boost export promotion after the Covid-19 epidemic; effectively implement the Project on developing the domestic market in association with the campaign " Vietnamese people give priority to using Vietnamese goods", develope the brand of Vietnamese goods.

“I hope that the fair will further tighten the close relationship and development cooperation between Long An province and other provinces and cities; open up good opportunities for localities and businesses to promote trade promotion activities in the coming time," added Mr. Nguyen Minh Lam.

After a temporary hiatus due to the epidemic, the Industry and Trade industry has accelerated with many activities to support trade promotion and goods consumption. It is not only an opportunity for trade connections for units and businesses, but also helps the organizers listen to opinions from people and businesses in order to improve the organization, innovate in both forms and methods of propaganda, connect to match the needs of the market, avoid duplication, and create a unique attraction for the fairs.

The fair is taking place at Tan An City Park and lasts until December 8, 2022 with many attractive promotions./.

By Bui Tung - Translated by P.Ngan

Source: https://baolongan.vn/hoi-cho-cong-thuong-khu-vuc-dong-bang-song-cuu-long-long-an-nam-2022-co-hoi-ket-noi-xuc-tien-thu-a146037.html