At a press conference providing information on socio-economic issues in Ho Chi Minh City on the afternoon of June 4, Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Truong Xuan - Head of the Culture - Society Department of Binh Dong ward said that the regional agricultural week - Binh Dong will be held on the occasion of the Doan Ngo Tet in 2026. The opening ceremony will take place on the evening of June 16, at Street No. 1 and No. 6 - Pegasuite residential area, lasting 1 week.
To date, the event has attracted the participation of 10 provinces and cities such as Lam Dong, Tay Ninh, Khanh Hoa, Dong Thap, An Giang, Can Tho, Vinh Long, Dong Nai and communes and wards of Ho Chi Minh City.
According to Binh Dong Ward People's Committee, Regional Agricultural Products Week - Binh Dong is a meeting point for exchange between regions, where the quintessence of Vietnamese agricultural products is gathered and honored. Organized annually, the event will play an important role in promoting the consumption of domestic products, and at the same time, preserving and promoting the traditional cultural values of each locality.
The event gathers more than 180 booths with many unique series of activities, so that people can feel the taste of their homeland through each product, each dish, each musical melody, Southern folk songs, directly experience making folk cakes with the guidance of artisans.
Attractive spaces and activities of the week such as an area for displaying and trading agricultural products from regions; an area for displaying, introducing and experiencing making folk cakes such as bamboo leaf banh u, tea troi nuoc, banh it, banh bot loc; culinary business area.
Besides, there are folk game activities; folk art activities such as folding artistic coconut leaves, sculpting and creating artistic shapes from colored clay (to he), drawing conical hats, drawing artistic portraits... and art performance programs serving people and tourists.
