Secure a clear path for Thieu lychee’s export

On May 18th, the People's Committee of Hai Duong province, together with the MoIT and the MARD held an event to open a lychee picking garden and cut the ribbon to launch the export of Hai Duong lychee in the 2021 harvest to markets such as Japan, USA, Australia, EU, Singapore…

The event took place in a concentrated lychee area in Thanh Lanh village, Thanh Quang commune (Thanh Ha district, Hai Duong) which meets VietGAP standards and has been granted a planting area code eligible for export to many markets.

Happy for the good crop, but deeply worried about the Covid-19 pandemic

As recorded in the lychee area of Thanh Quang commune (Thanh Ha district), currently the earliest ripening lychee areas with varieties such as ‘Trung Trang’, ‘Trung Gai’ lychee have entered the harvest stage, and the crop of middle varieties of lychee such as ‘U Hong’, ‘U Tham’, Thanh Ha hybrid is currently in the full pulp stage and can be harvested in the next 10-15 days.

Particularly, the main season lychee’s crop is expected to be harvested after June 10th, 2021. According to the comments of lychee growers in Thanh Ha, this year is a year of fruit-laden lychees, a big crop.

“Regarding the price of lychee at the beginning of the season, belonging to ‘U Hong’ and ‘Trung Gai’, we are buying for people with an average price of VND 26-28 thousand/kg, generally equivalent to the beginning of the season like every year. However, what we are most worried about is still the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic. We hope it will not more complicated so that the transport vehicles can go in and out of Hai Duong as well as export and domestic consumption can be smoothly operated", said Ms. Nguyen Thi Nu, owner of a large lychee purchasing and exporting facility in Thanh Thuy commune (Thanh Ha district).

Utilize domestic markets

Along with many businesses participating in the lychee consumption and export, this year, Rong Do Production, Trade and Service Co., Ltd (Rong Do Company) said that they have planned to buy about 300 - 500 tons of lychee in Thanh Ha lychee area (Hai Duong) to export to markets such as Japan, USA, Australia.

In addition to the export market, this year, Red Dragon Company also implement the promotion for consumption in the domestic market in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh city through sales channels via e-commerce exchanges such as Lazada, Voso...

Upon attending the lychee garden opening event, and cutting the ribbon to launch Hai Duong lychee export and the Conference to connect and promote the consumption of Thanh Ha lychee and other distinctive agricultural products of Hai Duong province, according to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan, in spite of the difficulties, having risks of disruption of agricultural product’s trading activities due to the Covid-19 epidemic, Hai Duong, as well as ministries, sectors and localities, have also been actively implementing adequate solutions, moving from direct trade to e-commerce, applying information technology to connect consumption and export.

Especially for Hai Duong lychee area, Minister Le Minh Hoan also said that the province needs to creatively combine utilizing economic potential and ecotourism potential, ensuring harmony between environmental and social factors...

The conference was attended by 31 international bridgeheads, including 21 Vietnamese trade offices in other countries and trade agencies of many countries, including many key markets such as Guangxi, Yunnan (China), the US, the EU, Japan, etc., along with over 200 online bridgeheads, major agriculture product consuming and distributing enterprises and organizations.