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AEON executive officer hopes for more Vietnam’s thieu lychee exports

Executive Officer Soichi Okazaki of Japan’s AEON shopping mall developer and operator has said the company wants to import fresh “thieu” lychee and other tropical fruits from Vietnam.
AEON executive officer hopes for more Vietnam’s thieu lychee exports ảnh 1Executive Officer Soichi Okazaki of Japan’s AEON shopping mall developer and operator holds a box of Vietnamese "thieu" lychee (Photo: VNA)

Tokyo (VNA) – Executive Officer Soichi Okazaki of Japan’sAEON shopping mall developer and operator has said the company wants to import fresh“thieu” lychee and other tropical fruits from Vietnam.

Vietnam’s “thieu” lychee hit the shelves of AEON shoppingcentres across Japan starting on June 22.

Ambassador to Japan Vu Hong Nam said that Vietnamese “thieu”lychee being for sale at Japanese malls demonstrates that Vietnam’sagricultural sector has succeeded in meeting stringent standards of such ademanding market as Japan, which is hoped to help Vietnam’s lychee to conquerother choosy markets in the future.

In the coming time, the Vietnamese Embassy will work withrelevant agencies to help longan and other fruits cultivated in Vietnam enterthe Japanese market, he added.

On June 20, the first batch of fresh “thieu” lychee wentthrough customs clearance at Japan's Narita International Airport. Upcomingshipments are set to reach the East Asian nation via sea transport.

In late 2019, Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry andFisheries (MAFF) announced the opening of the door to Vietnamese lychee, withregulations in place on imported plant quarantining for the fruit.

This was the result of more than five years of negotiationsbetween the Vietnamese Plant Protection Department at the Ministry ofAgriculture and Rural Development and MAFF./.

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