Te Rau rice is specialty rice cultivated only in remote highland areas. In fact, cultivation actually met many difficulties and there was a time when people stopped cultivating.
Since 2019, when the project “Promoting gender equality through improving economic efficiency in agricultural production and tourism development” funded by the Australian Government in Son La, people are trained and continue to cultivate this rice. Up to now, farmers have had a bumper harvest with good quality and a consuming market. The Te Rau rice fields also become places of interest, exchange, and learning experiences.
From this rice variety, people began to develop heritage agriculture, development plans, and strategies to associate agriculture with tourism, in order to retain beautiful stories about the poor life village but full of indentity.
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