Son La: 5 ancient trees honored as Vietnam Heritage Trees

On May 30, the People's Committee of Yen Chau district (Son La) organized the Mango Festival 2025 and the Ceremony to announce the Decision to recognize Vietnamese Heritage Trees in 2025.

With over 3,300 hectares of mango, the output in 2025 is estimated to reach over 26,000 tons, with varieties of round mango, native stinky mango, Australian mango, Taiwanese mango, Yen Chau mango has become a special agricultural symbol of Son La land, with a characteristic flavor, beautiful shape, thin skin, sweet taste, highly appreciated by domestic and foreign markets.

Mango Festival is an annual activity to promote the Yen Chau Mango brand and honor mango growers in the district. Photo: Nguyen Nga.

Promoting Yen Chau Mango brand

Mango Festival is an annual activity organized by Yen Chau District People's Committee since 2017. This year, Yen Chau continues to choose Kha village, Sap Vat commune as the location for the main activities of the Festival.

This is a village with great potential and advantages for developing community tourism , with dozens of hectares of ancient round mango trees hundreds of years old and located in a geographical indication area. In particular, the village still retains traditional stilt houses and preserves unique cultural features of the Thai ethnic group, such as the Dong Sua Festival; folk singing, performing traditional musical instruments; maintaining traditional crafts...

Taking place over 3 days from May 30 to June 1, the Mango Festival 2025 includes a series of rich and attractive activities. Highlights include mango picking contests, xoè dance contests, ethnic costume performances, dexterity contests, folk games, mango garden tours, reenactment of the Dong Sua Festival; booths displaying typical agricultural and handicraft products of communes and towns...

Mango picking competition using a pole. Photo: Nguyen Nga.

Hand-picking mangoes competition. Photo: Nguyen Nga.

Delegates visit booths displaying Yen Chau agricultural and handicraft products. Photo: Nguyen Nga.

Speaking at the opening of the Festival, Mr. Lu Van Cuong, Chairman of Yen Chau District People's Committee emphasized: Mango Festival is an opportunity to promote and advertise Yen Chau Mango brand and honor mango growers; contribute to introducing the land and people of Yen Chau to a large number of friends and tourists inside and outside the province, promote products, connect trade, promote investment, promote production - consumption linkage; create a premise to promote Yen Chau tourism to develop commensurate with the potential and advantages of the district.

Honoring Vietnam Heritage Trees

The highlight of this year's program is the Ceremony to announce the decision and award certificates of recognition for 5 Vietnamese heritage trees of Yen Chau district, including: tamarind tree, mango tree in Kha village, Sap Vat commune; banyan tree in Luong village and a group of 9 tea trees in On Oc village, Muong Lum commune; and dracontomelon tree in Na Nga village, Chieng Hac commune. This is not only a biological and environmental recognition, but also a profound testament to the cultural - historical - spiritual value of mango trees in the life of the ethnic communities of Yen Chau.

Leaders of the Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment awarded certificates of recognition as Vietnam Heritage Trees to representatives of the villages. Photo: Nguyen Nga.

Delegates take souvenir photos next to the Vietnam Heritage Tree. Photo: Nguyen Nga.

In the coming time, Yen Chau district will continue to promote the strength of mango growing areas, expand the area, boost production according to VietGAP and GlobalGAP standards; improve the quality of processing, packaging, branding and boost exports, aiming to build and develop the Yen Chau Mango brand to become a national OCOP product.

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