The district expects to harvest about 17,000 tonnes of the fruit from 1,340 hectares this year, of which 1,170 hectares are hoped to provide nearly 15,000 tonnes of early ripening lychee.

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To ensure the quality of early ripening lychee, Tan Yen has continued maintaining and expanding the cultivation area under VietGAP standards, and built a 10-ha production area under GlobalGAP standards.

Since early April, businesses and cooperatives came to Tan Yen to scope out its lychee farming. The locality expects to harvest roughly 9,000 tonnes of lychee for the domestic market, and export some 8,000 tonnes, mainly to China, Japan, the US and the EU.

The district plans to organise a consumption promotion programme for early ripening lychee in late May in Phuc Hoa commune, which is home to about 680 hectares of the fruit with an output of 9,000 tonnes.

Ngo Quoc Hung, Vice Chairman of the district People’s Committee, said Tan Yen has invited enterprises to the locality, to help in removing obstacles to lychee consumption.

The district has also asked relevant sides to step up agricultural product trading through e-commerce platforms, thus enabling people to directly sell their products, he added.

Bac Giang seizes opportunities to export lychee through Kep station

(BGO)- After Kep station (in Lang Giang district) is exploited as an international multimodal transport terminal, Bac Giang province has another transportation mode for export of farm produce. However, it will need time and joint efforts of the competent agencies, localities and enterprises to change the opportunity into advantages.

Bac Giang has 12 more lychee growing area codes to export to Australia and Thailand

(BGO) – The Plant Protection Agency has granted additional 12 lychee growing area codes (GAC) to export to Australia and Thailand, reported Dang Van Tang, Head of the Plant Production and Protection Division (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Bac Giang province) on May 18.

Central Retail Group commits to consuming over 2,300 tonnes of lychee and farm produce of Bac Giang

(BGO) – Vice Chairman of Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee (PPC) Phan The  Tuan on May 16 had a working session with Central Retail Group (CRG) about cooperation plan to consume lychee in 2023.

Luc Ngan mobilizes over 500 million VND to support lychee production for export

(BGO) – To expand VietGAP and GlobalGAP lychee production area with qualified standard for export, especially to demanding markets of Japan, the US, EU, Australia, Republic of Korea among others, the People’s Committee in Luc Ngan district (Bac Giang province) has allocated over 500 million VND (over 21,000 USD) to support plant protection product, fertilizer, issuance of standard satisfaction, analysis of plant protection product residue on product before export.

Bac Giang’s early lychee starts ripening

(BGO) – The early lychees in Luc Ngan district (Bac Giang province) starts ripening with light pink peel, thick and sweet flesh.

Source: VNA