In the past months, there were many Chinese individuals and enterprises to find out investment opportunities in Ben Tre. Around 10 Chinese delegations come the province for in-depth investigation under supporting of IPC Ben Tre. They do concern section of products processing from coconut materials, coconut fibre, cocopeat and coconut agar-agar especially. The two places attracting concerning potential investors are Mo Cay district and Ben Tre Town. A Chinese Company is surveying to invest caned fruits and coconut agar-agar, coconut fibre production project. The demand of land lease is 3 ha with the investment capital of USD 2 million. The province issued investment certificates for 2 Chinese investors with coconut agar-agar production projects at Phu Hung commune and Binh Phu commune. The investment scale of those projects is often small, averaging about USD 300,000 per project. Moreover, a big Chinese Group delegated experts to come to Ben Tre to seek out investment. They intended to lease 20ha - 30ha of land in the industrial park to invest in garment and dying, knitting project. However, the province shall be careful towards environment polluting projects. Environmental friendly projects will be welcomed and created conditions to invest in Ben Tre.

Written by IPC Ben Tre-Translated by Thu Ha