The third Hanoi Agricultural Products and  Craft Village Festival 2024 will take place in the fourth quarter to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the capital's Liberation Day (October 10, 1954-2024).

According to the plan approved by Deputy Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Nguyen Manh Quyen, the festival aims to showcase achievements in agriculture and rural development and promote agricultural products and Hanoi's handicrafts.

Along with fostering close ties between the State, businesses, scientists, and farmers, the event also serves as a bridge between local and foreign organizations, businesses involved in agriculture, artisan communities, and investigation institutions.

In addition, it helps enterprises to explore investment in agriculture and handicraft villages, especially in processing, and look for regional linkages, aiming at official exports. It also creates opportunities to promote agricultural products and handicrafts, especially certified OCOP (one commune-one product) products of the city, introduce ecological agricultural models linked to tourism, and call for domestic and international investment cooperation in Hanoi.

Cooperatives, farmers, artisans, agriculture-related businesses, and craft villages in Hanoi and provinces and cities nationwide will join the festival.

An artisan makes a paper fan in Chang Son Village, Hanoi. The village is home to the traditional craft of fan-making.  Photo: Hoai Nam/The Hanoi Times

Priority for festival participation is granted to units whose products are made using high-tech, organic, and VietGAP criteria.

As part of the festival, activities will be held to showcase agricultural and rural development products from Hanoi and provinces and cities nationwide, as well as OCOP products, handicrafts, and quality farm produce.

Hanoi is home to 47 out of a total of 52 traditional trades nationwide. The production value of Hanoi's craft villages currently reaches over VND24,000 billion (US$1 billion) per year.

According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan, each craft village has its own identity, facilitating the creation of unique, sophisticated products imbued with national cultural identity and bringing increasingly high economic efficiency to rural workers.

The artisan villages have actively contributed to the restructuring and development of the rural economy, creating the conditions for the successful implementation of the OCOP program and the New Rural Development Program in the city.

"Hanoi is on the right track in tapping into cultural values and local strengths to develop OCOP products. The introduction and promotion of OCOP products through events and festivals are being organized in an increasingly professional and attractive manner," said Hoan.

"Behind each OCOP product is the concerted effort of many people who are helping to activate the rural economic sector and shift it toward producing high-value-added products," Hoan emphasized.

The festival will be held for five days in the fourth quarter of 2024 at Mailand Hanoi City Urban Area, An Khanh Commune, Hoai Duc District, Hanoi.