There included 6,000 hectares of early ripen lychee (21 percent). The flowering rate reached over 90 percent. As expected, the crop will be harvested from May 20 with total productivity of 38,000 tonnes.

The main season and late ripen lychee cover some 22,000 hectares with flowering rate of more than 70 percent which are harvested from June 10 – July 15. Due attention has been paid to caring for the orchard as well as preventing the worm and disease for the tree.

The staff at Farming Encouragement Division in Hong Giang commune, Luc Ngan district (red) instructs the farmer to care for lychee under VietGAP procedure.

Amid the complicated development of Covid-19 epidemic, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD) continues instructing to apply the technical methods to prolong the harvest time, improve the lychee quality inline with VietGAP and GlobalGAP standards to meet the consumption demand for domestic market and export.

The DARD has coordinated with the Department of Industry and Trade to plan the lychee consumption promotion. Besides the traditional markets, the province prepared the plan to export to Japan while calling for enterprises to join the linkage of production and consumption.

To date, the province has collaborated with the Department of Plant Protection (DoPP) (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) and two businesses specialized at export activities (Chanh Thu and Ameil Company Limited) to select the cultivation area and list of participating households to conduct survey. The DoPP issued 10 codes for the growing area up to 50 hectares.

The province is now reviewing and urging DoPP to additionally grant 5 more codes with total area of 27 hectares to satisfy the demand of lychee export and local enterprises’ proposal.

Apart from the foreign market, in 2020, Bac Giang will expand the domestic consumption market via supermarkets, retail stores, distributors, wholesale markets at big cities, especially to the Southern provinces.

The province strives to sell 60 percent of the total lychee output at the domestic markets.

Bac Giang follows lychee production procedure for export

(BGO) – Together with rice cultivation for spring crop, the farmers in Luc Ngan district, Bac Giang province have recently focused on caring for the lychee orchards to ensure the standard for domestic consumption and export to demanding markets.

Bac Giang actively prepares conditions for exporting lychees to Japan

(BGO) - On December 15, 2019, the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries officially opened the door for Vietnamese lychees to be exported directly to Japan. The information is a joy for lychee growers in Bac Giang, which boasts the largest concentrated lychee production area in the country. Reporters of Bac Giang Newspaper had an interview with Duong Thanh Tung, Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, about this issue.

Japan officially opens door for Vietnamese fresh lychee

(BGO) – After five years of negotiation, Japan has officially opened door to early import Vietnamese fresh lychee to the market.  

Luc Ngan lychee and Yen The hill chicken honored as “Vietnam golden agriculture brands 2019”

(BGO) – After 4 month survey across the nation, the General Association of Vietnam Agriculture and Rural Development selected 30 products of localities and enterprises to honor as the Vietnam Golden Agriculture Brands 2019, two of which are from Bac Giang province, namely Luc Ngan lychee and Yen The hill chicken.

Level of Bac Giang lychee

(BGO) - In recent days, forums and the mass media have reflected the joy and admiration at the record number of nearly 6,400 billion VND (197.4 million USD) in revenue from 150,000 tonnes of lychee of Bac Giang farmers. A rare phenomenon "repeated in 60 years" is that "a basket of lychee earns three ‘chi’ (one ‘chi’ = 3.75grams) of gold".

Thuy Duong