According to deputy head of the border gate’s customs sub-department, Hoang Thi Thieu Hoa, fresh lychees are often shipped via Tan Thanh from mid-May to late June every year.

Efforts have been made by the customs office, border guards and plant quarantine checkpoints to ease the load in the border gate so that fresh lychees can undergo customs clearance for export within the same day.

Over 13,000 tonnes of fresh lychee exported via Tan Thanh border gate.

A parking lot dedicated to trucks loaded with fresh lychee is also set up at Tan Thanh border gate to facilitate lychee exports to China.

In Vietnam’s Bac Giang and Hai Duong provinces, some lychees that have matured early have been harvested from May 25, however the main harvest comes around June to early July.

China remains the largest importer of Vietnamese lychees, mostly via border gates in Lao Cai, Ha Giang and Lang Son provinces. In 2018, China imported approximately 51,000 tonnes of fresh lychees and 19,000 tonnes of dried lychees worth over US$30 million.

Saigon Co.op takes northern lychees around the country

The Saigon Union of Trading Co-operatives (Saigon Co.op) will buy 500-700 tonnes of thieu lychees, a unique fruit grown in the northern province of Bac Giang’s Luc Ngan District, this year, 25 percent more than in 2018.

Luc Ngan lychee officially enters southern distribution system

(BGO) - Saigon Co.op and the Department of Industry and Trade of Bac Giang province jointly held the lychee consumption promotion programme into the distribution system of Saigon Co.op in Ho Chi Minh City on the morning of 3 June.

Early lychees sold at high price

(BGO) – The early ripen lychees in Tan Yen and Luc Ngan districts in Bac Giang province are enjoying good consumption with high selling price. As of June 1, the fruits were sold at 40,000 VND (1.72 USD) per kilogram in Phuc Hoa commune (Tan Yen district) and 60,000  VND (2.57 USD) per kilogram in Luc Ngan district.  

Secretary Bui Van Hai instructs to focus on lychee consumption

(BGO) – On May 30, Bui Van Hai, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Bac Giang provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the provincial People’s Council paid a field trip to Luc Ngan district to inspect the actual situation of lychee production and consumption.

Promoting linkages, expanding markets for lychee

(BGO) - On May 29, at the provincial Convention Center, the Bac Giang provincial People's Committee organised an economic forum on lychee production and consumption and promoting cultural, tourist and agricultural products in 2019.

Source: NDO