This year, the whole province has about 29,700 hectares of lychee, mostly in Chu town and Luc Ngan, Tan Yen, Lang Giang, Luc Nam, Yen The districts, including 16,000 hectares of lychee produced in line with VietGAP standards, 203 hectares produced in line with GlobalGAP standards.

Ngo Van Cuong in Quat Du 2 village of Phuc Hoa commune (Tan Yen district) checks his lychee garden.

In particular, Bac Giang continues to maintain more than 240 lychee growing area codes with a scale of nearly 17,500 hectares for export to the markets of China, the United States, Australia, Thailand and Japan together with 39 packaging facilities.

The favorable weather this year resulted in high flowering rate, forecasting a bumper crop. The early ripening lychee is expected to be harvested after May 20, 2025.

In recent years, lychee has often been promoted in traditional Chinese markets, some wholesale markets and supermarkets in Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong Province and Hanoi.

This year, lychee output is forecast to be high, so in order to proactively bring lychee to many new markets, the Department of Industry and Trade has advised on preparing conditions, coordinating promotion and advertising at some famous domestic tourist destinations such as Da Nang, Quy Nhon, Nha Trang and Phu Quoc among others.

Tran Trong Nguyen, CEO of Mova Plus Joint Stock Company (a company specializing in exporting agricultural products) informed that after about 20 years of researching the European market, the company realized that Vietnamese lychees in general and Bac Giang lychees in particular have won the hearts of European consumers.

Therefore, in this year's lychee crop, the company plans to bring 500 tonnes of lychees to this market, then gradually increase and strive to reach about 3,000 tonnes by 2030.

To promote this lychee crop, the company has developed a working plan with the Embassy, ​​Counselor and Trade Office of Vietnam in Europe (Germany, France, Belgium, ...); organized distribution channels and sales systems in Europe to prepare for the event to promote and advertise lychees in this region in early June 2025.

To synchronously and smoothly conduct trade promotion, Nguyen suggested the People's Committee of Bac Giang province to pay attention to coordinating and participating in promotion activities and advertising Bac Giang lychee in some European countries; support transportation costs for fresh lychee to reduce costs and increase competitiveness.

Recently, during a meeting with the Department of Commerce of Guangxi Province (China), the Department of Industry and Trade also suggested Guangxi side to create favorable conditions for the consumption of Bac Giang lychees.

Along with the proactive promotion of functional agencies and local authorities, gardeners also focus on taking care of lychees to ensure quality.

In recent times, the farmers in the growing area codes for export to markets such as China, Japan, Australia, the US in Phuc Hoa commune (Tan Yen district) have followed the technical process according to the instructions of the head of the growing area code.

Lychee growing area in Giap Son commune of Luc Ngan district.

Ngo Van Cuong, head of a growing area code in Quat Du 2 village, said: "Together with households producing lychees for export, we monitor each other's caring process, only using fertilizers and pesticides in the permitted list. Therefore, the products analyzed for quality before export always meet the indicators".

Up to now, 5 businesses have cooperated with people in Phuc Hoa commune to export lychees to markets such as the US, Europe, China and Japan this year.

These days, in concentrated lychee production areas such as Hong Giang ward, Quy Son commune, Thanh Hai (Chu town) or Giap Son commune, Tan Moc commune (Luc Ngan), people also focus on taking care of the crop to achieve good quality and beautiful appearance.

To be proactive for the 2025 lychee crop, from the end of 2024, the Department of Agriculture and Environment established a lychee production steering group to regularly coordinate with districts to direct and guide farmers in lychee production.