It would be the first time that the fruits are sold online, and the agency said the biggest hurdle to this is farmers’ lack of knowledge of e-commerce, online marketing, selling and customer support and quality control.

Lychee farmers in northern Hai Duong Province take their produce to a market.

It has collaborated with the northern province’s Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development and Industry and Trade to provide training to lychee farmers and traders in setting up and operating stores on the four e-commerce platforms.

Hai Duong harvested 43,000 tons of lychee last year and exported half of it, including 1,600 tons to Japan, Australia and the U.S. It expects to harvest 55,000 tons this year, and export half to China.

In nearby Bac Giang Province, the director of the Department of Industry and Trade, Tran Quang Tan, estimated 180,000 tons of lychees would be harvested this year, with half of it exported to China, 10 percent to Japan and another 10 percent to the U.S., the EU and Australia.

The harvest will take two months starting May end.

Around 300 Chinese merchants have registered to visit Vietnam to buy lychees in Bac Giang.

Local authorities will arrange transportation for them at the border, test them for Covid-19 and quarantine them for 14 days.

The northern provinces of Bac Giang and Hai Duong are Vietnam’s lychee growing hubs, with the former having the largest area for lychee cultivation, which was 28,000 hectares last year, according to Bac Giang Portal. Hai Duong province came in second with 10,000 hectares, the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development reported.

164 Chinese traders quarantined before buying lychee in Bac Giang

(BGO) – The Immigration Department (Ministry of Public Security) has approved for 164 foreigners (Chinese traders) to enter Vietnam (first period) to survey, negotiate and buy lychee in Bac Giang province.

Bac Giang produces live broadcasting of lychee promotion to domestic and foreign bridge points

(BGO) – The People’s Committee in Bac Giang province has issued Plan to organize various activities of meeting, forum, festival to introduce the tourism products and promote the consumption of lychee, key and signature farm produce in the province in 2021.

Luc Ngan uses 8 facilities to quarantine traders coming to buy lychee

(BGO) – On April 23, Nguyen The Thi, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee in Luc Ngan district, Bac Giang province said the district completed arranging the best methods to welcome and quarantine Chinese traders who come to buy lychee to prevent Covid-19 disease. 

Bac Giang highly focuses on election, national high school graduation exam and lychee consumption

(BGO) – On April 22, the People’s Committee in Bac Giang province held regular meeting in April 2021 under the chair of Le Anh Duong, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee (PPC).

Source: VnExpress