President Tran Dai Quang makes a speech at the festival.
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On the occasion, President Quang launched an agricultural mechanisation programme by directly driving a tractor on the field to encourage localities across the countr to promote industrialisation and modernisation of agriculture and rural areas.
Addressing the ceremony, the State leader highlighted the significance of the festival, adding that the annual event has become a tradition in the locality’s cultural life, which was recognised as an intangible cultural heritage of the nation.
At the festival.
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President Quang stressed that the Tich Dien festival dignifies the importance of agriculture and the role of farmers, and contributes to preserving and upholding cultural values of the locality.
It also creates a chance to introduce Ha Nam’s images and tourism potential to domestic and foreign visitors and overseas Vietnamese, thus promoting the province’s socio-economic development, he added.
The President expressed his pleasure with the fact that Ha Nam and other localities nationwide have recorded more and more concentrated and machine-based goods production models with the application of high technologies, and cooperation with foreign investors to produce and process high-quality farm produce.
At the Tich Dien (ploughing) festival 2017.
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President Tran Dai Quang drives a tractor on the field to launch an agricultural mechanisation programme at the Tich Dien (ploughing) festival.
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The Tich Dien festival began in 987 during the Le dynasty when King Le Dai Hanh decided to plough in Doi Son commune, Duy Tien district to wish for bumper crops.
The practice then became an annual tradition held through many dynasties before falling into oblivion under the reign of King Khai Dinh of the Nguyen dynasty. The festival was restored in 2009.
