Featured Mat Weaving Villages in An Hiep Nhon Thanh - Ben Tre

An Hiep mat weaving village - Chau Thanh - Ben Tre (An Hiep handicraft village) was formed in the 1950s, after decades of development with many ups and downs, the traditional mat weaving craft The system has not been eroded over time but is still preserved and developed, creating a stable source of income for local people, contributing to economic restructuring.

• An Hiep mat weaving village has a variety of different mat products, but the main product is sedge mats, later water hyacinth mats were added.
• Not only does it produce mats to serve domestic consumption and export needs, but it is also a place to produce other handicraft products, diverse in raw materials and rich in products.
• The labor force in craft villages is constantly increasing, with more than 50 households initially, now there are over 200 households involved in mat weaving and nearly 400 households involved in other products, with over 1,000 workers.

Every year, An Hiep craft village produces tens of thousands of square meters of mats, hundreds of tons of coconut fiber and many other handicrafts.

Now, An Hiep land is completely new with roads deep in the hamlets that have been paved with smooth concrete, rows of coconut trees giving shade along both sides of the road, gardens with all kinds of fruits such as: Green-skinned grapefruit, oranges, tangerines, cocoa,... are green, rural traffic conditions for the people here are much more favorable than before, and the socio-economic development of the commune is growing.

It is known that the local government and people of An Hiep commune are joining hands to strive to complete the criteria for building a new rural commune to contribute to improving people's lives and bringing An Hiep commune's economy to develop properly. lasting.

In Ben Tre, the development of craft villages and industries in rural areas has long been identified as one of the important solutions to promote agricultural and rural economic restructuring and labor restructuring. activities to increase income, improve and enhance the lives of rural workers, contributing to hunger eradication and poverty reduction, this is also one of the goals set by the new rural construction program.

Therefore, stabilizing and developing An Hiep-Chau Thanh mat weaving village not only contributes to building new rural areas but also has many conditions for tourism development, with the attention and support of local authorities. along with being associated with the river tourism area of 8 communes along the Tien River.