Mekong Delta Rice Festival in Long An 2018

On the evening of June 15, DTC Trading Co., Ltd with representatives of 150 enterprises attended the opening ceremony of the Rice Festival and the High-tech Agriculture Exhibition (Cuu Long) in the Mekong Delta (Mekong Delta) 1st – 2018 in Tan An Park, Long An Province.

Attending former State President – Truong Tan Sang; Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of People’s Council – Pham Van Ranh; Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee – Nguyen Van Duoc; Trade Promotion Department, Import-Export Department, Department of Industry and Trade, Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Representing 400 booths, 150 companies from 20 provinces and cities in the South and India, Thailand, South Korea and Japan.

Delegates attend the opening ceremony. Picture: ST

The Mekong Delta is a key food producing region with rice production accounting for over 50% of the country’s total rice production and contributes over 80% of its annual rice output. However, the production of rice in the Mekong Delta is not pretty high due to small scale system, mainly using laborers, lacking modern machines with high efficiency and accuracy, leading to high production costs, low leverage.

Therefore, the Rice Festival and the High-tech Agriculture Exhibition offers an opportunity for farmers and enterprises to approach the production process and to cultivate a clean and safe agriculture. , contributing to raise the value of rice and hi-tech agricultural products in the Mekong Delta.

More than 40% of the companies participating in the booth specialized in providing mechanical machinery for agricultural products include:  color sorter machine, farm dryer, silo system, As a result, the company is able to meet the high demand for export to Western European markets.

DTC’s booth. Photo: DTC

DTC Color Sorter SQ164D – A multifunction color sorter that separates rice, nuts and plastic or glass according to the requirements of each factory.

Photo: DTC