Bac Giang lychee prices are higher than every year

According to the People's Committee of Luc Ngan district, as of June 9, 2022, the whole district has 96 points of weighing and purchasing lychees; accumulated consumption of early ripening litchi is 3,938 tons; Product selling price ranges from 18,000 - 35,000 VND/kg. In which, early ripening litchi products are mainly consumed in the domestic market with about 2,067 tons; exported about 1,795 tons.

Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Giang province, Mr. Le Anh Duong visited the early ripening litchi area in Phuc Hoa commune, Tan Yen district. Photo: TL.

Prices of auxiliary items for lychee consumption such as: Ice ranges from 25,000 - 30,000 VND/tree; small foam box 23,000 VND/piece; Styrofoam box is 35,000 VND/carton..., most of which are equivalent to last year's price, ensuring the demand for fabric packing in the area.

The whole district has 2 electric fabric drying ovens operating in Hong Giang commune. The total amount of dried fabric up to this point is about 9.5 tons. Currently, about 20 Chinese traders come to Luc Ngan to buy lychees for export.

Following the direction of the Provincial People's Committee, the People's Committee of Luc Ngan District has organized many delegations to find out the situation of export, market, consumption promotion and processing for lychee products at Mong Cai international border gate. (Quang Ninh), large wholesale markets and border gates in the southern provinces; at the same time, contact and work with management boards of industrial zones to put lychee products into consumption.

Up to now, Luc Ngan has signed an agreement to consume about 45,000 tons of lychee, accounting for nearly 50% of the total output of the 2022 crop year (about 95,000 tons), of which more than 25,000 tons are exported. The district is committed to creating the most favorable conditions to support businesses, cooperatives and traders to purchase, consume and process lychee.

One of the new points of the consumption of Bac Giang lychee in general, and Luc Ngan in particular in this crop year, is to focus more on the southern market. From the beginning of June 2022, the delegation led by Mr. Phan The Tuan, Vice Chairman of Bac Giang Provincial People's Committee has surveyed a number of lychee business locations in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces, and at the same time worked Working with retail chains, wholesale markets.

At a large supermarket in Ho Chi Minh City, lychee is sold for 42,900 VND/kg in bunches, and 52,000 VND/kg in stalks. At Thu Duc agricultural wholesale market, with more than 1,400 stalls, every day about 100 container trucks carrying lychee are brought in and sold.

Bac Giang has soon implemented many trade promotion activities for this year's lychee harvest. Photo: TL.

From the beginning of the season, the Department of Industry and Trade and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development have advised the People's Committee of Bac Giang province to prepare two consumption scenarios, which is 50% of domestic consumption (if the Covid-19 epidemic is controlled), and 70% of domestic consumption. domestic consumption (if the epidemic is complicated). Up to now, basically, Bac Giang lychee is consumed according to the first plan.

In parallel with consumption in the South, Bac Giang also established two working groups to support lychee exportation at border gates in Lao Cai and Lang Son provinces to support customs clearance for transport vehicles when the main lychee harvest season arrives. flourishing plan.

Compared with every year, the selling price at this crop's lychee garden is higher, reaching about 25,000 - 35,000 VND/kg. This is a factor expected by Luc Ngan, as well as a lever to help Tan Yen early lychee bar achieve the highest revenue ever.

The lychee production area in Tan Yen district is about 1,340 hectares, the output is estimated at 17,000 tons (up 12% compared to 2021), the value is estimated at more than 460 billion VND. By June 8, the whole district harvested about 11,215 tons (68% of output). Particularly, Phuc Hoa commune - which is called "early lychee capital" by Chairman of Bac Giang Provincial People's Committee, Mr. Le Anh Duong, can reach 300 billion VND in revenue.

The delegation led by Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Giang province, Mr. Le Anh Duong, had just worked with Global Food Import-Export Joint Stock Company, which has a factory and processing line in Luc Ngan district. This year's lychee crop, this business is expected to purchase about 3,000 tons of raw lychee, of which about 200 tons of fresh fruit are exported, the rest is processed. The company's products are mainly exported to fastidious markets such as Japan, the US...

Source: Bao Thang/ nongnghiep.vn