The US is a high class and demanding market. If the products enter this market, it will help affirm prestige and trademark as the “passport” to other ones.

Vietnam lychee has many competitors to enter US market. Though it received license to export to this country from 2014, only small quantity of lychee was consumed.

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According to Nguyen Dinh Phu, Chairman of The Vietnamese Entrepreneurs Network in the United States of America (VENUSA), the biggest obstacles are distance and high freight so few Vietnam lychees are consumed at the US.

The fresh lychees are bought from Florida, Hawaii or Mexico within a day at 250,000 VND (over 10 USD) per kg which is haft of the selling price of Vietnam one.

Phu shared Vietnamese people in the US are willing to buy lychee from homeland with higher price to support local farmers. The business and Vietnamese community expect to taste local special fruit in this season.

To realize this, Bac Giang province built lychee growing area in line with GlobalGAP stanard and strictly control over the growing area code. It is necessary to have joint assistance from airline to support flight capacity with special air freight for lychee batch to US.

The Vietnamese representative organizations in the US, especially the Trade Office are suggested to accelerate communication and lychee promotion.

The Vietnamese exporters must cooperate with US partners to introduce lychee to traditional distribution channels like Asian market, Vietnamese market, online market while launching lychee introduction session to Vietnamese community in California where many Vietnamese live.

Bac Giang ensures qualified lychee to export to high-ranking markets

(BGO)- On the morning of April 14, the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development held a seminar to seek solutions for production and consumption of lychee in 2022.

High lychee fruit bearing rate thanks to favorable weather condition

(BGO) - The favorable weather condition this year helps lychee have high flowering and fruit bearing rate in Bac Giang province particularly over 95 percent for early ripening lychee and 75 percent for main lychee season (3-5 percent higher than the figure last year), reported the provincial Plant Production and Protection Division.

Expectation of a fruitful lychee season in Bac Giang

About 160,000 tonnes of Bac Giang lychee is scheduled to be sold on the market in 2022. Promoting exports to major markets will be one of the important consumption orientations Bac Giang is pursuing.

Luc Ngan district pays attention to lychee quality, expansion of consumption market

(BGO)- In order to meet demand of the export market and response to impact of Covid-19 pandemic, Luc Ngan district in northern province of Bac Giang has directed the competent agencies to make plan to guide farmers on production of lychee ensuring quality while timely organizing trade promotion activities since late February 2022.

Tan Yen separates lychee growing area code for export

(BGO) – Phuc Hoa commune, Tan Yen district (Bac Giang province) now has grown 600 ha of early ripening lychee which has been granted a growing area code (GAC) since 2018.