The harvest season has just come in the nation’s largest lychee farming area but the market for the fruit will surely be affected by the global Covid-19 epidemic this year. In order to make this year's crop harvest favourable and effective, Bac Giang is actively deploying consumption promotion activities.

In 2020, Bac Giang boasts over 28,100 ha of lychee farming, with an estimated output of 160,000 tonnes.

As planned, the province will host a video conference that connects representatives from the Vietnamese relevant authorities, trade offices and embassies in Vietnam of China, Japan, and Thailand, as well as leading local and foreign retailers.

In addition to the main venue in Bac Giang, the online conference will also premiere in China’s Guangxi and Yunnan Provinces, as well as other 61 venues in provinces and cities across Vietnam.

Immediately after the teleconference, Bac Giang authorities will hold a ceremony to send off trucks carrying harvested lychee for consumption in both domestic and foreign markets.

To boost sales of lychee, Luc Ngan and Tan Yen Districts, home to the largest lychee areas in the province, will prepare a list of foreign wholesalers who have signalled their demand for lychee and ask authorities to allow their entry into Vietnam to purchase the fruit. They will also formulate plans to quarantine these traders, in line with regulations.

Previously, Bac Giang also developed specific plans for promoting lychee consumption in 2020 in the context of the complicated Covid-19 situation. The locale has determined its main export markets of Bac Giang lychee are Japan, the United States, Australia, Europe and China.

Japan has approved a total of 19 Production Unit Codes (PUCs) for 103 ha of lychee in the province, including 98 ha in Luc Ngan and 5 ha in Tan Yen. The province has also received 18 PUCs for 218 ha of lychee in Luc Ngan’s six communes for export to the US, Australia, and the EU.

This year Bac Giang has more than 28,100 ha of lychee, with output likely to increase by 10,000 tonnes to 160,000 tonnes this year. This includes 45,000 tonnes of early-ripening lychee harvested on an estimated area of 6,000 ha and 115,000 tonnes of lychee from the main crop on an area of 22,100 ha.

The harvest is expected to last until July 10.

250 Chinese traders register to visit Luc Ngan to buy lychee

(BGO) – Now, the Department of Industry and Trade (DoIT) is focusing on contacting to the distribution groups, wholesale markets, businesses, cooperatives and traders who want to visit Bac Giang province to consume lychee so as to have suitable supporting method.

Bac Giang betters pandemic fight, facilitates immigration of traders to purchase lychee

(BGO) - Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Le Anh Duong, Deputy Head of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 prevention and control of Bac Giang province chaired an online conference on the pandemic fight on 14 May.

Completing procedures to export the first batch of fresh lychee to Japan

The Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development held an online meeting on May 14 with related Japanese partners to discuss measures towards completing the procedures for the export of Vietnam’s fresh lychees to Japan.

Provincial leader urges to surmount difficulties, expand lychee consumption market

(BGO)- Permanent Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee (PPC) Lai Thanh Son on May 12 afternoon had a meeting with leaders of the departments of Agriculture and Rural Development, Transportation, Information and Communication and Public Security, PPC’s Office and the districts of Luc Ngan and Tan Yen about lychee consumption promotion in 2020.

Several big supermarkets place lychee orders

(BGO) – According to the Center of Industrial Encouragement and Trade Promotion in Bac Giang province (unde the Department of Industry and  Trade), the Center is now boosting up contacting to the distribution groups, wholesale markets, enterprises, traders in the province, country and foreign markets.

Source: NDO