Each summer, Bac Giang welcomes not just the fruit harvest, but also a wave of visitors eager to explore its landscape and culture. Once a purely agricultural product, lychees are increasingly becoming a signature feature of sustainable tourism in the region.
Festival-goers will have a chance to take part in lychee harvesting, bunch-tying, stem-cutting, chilling fruit in ice-water tanks, and packing into foam boxes in accordance with export-standard procedures.
Long lines of motorbikes, trucks, and container trucks full of lychees can be found along roads in Luc Ngan district, northern Bac Giang province, these days, creating a busy and bustling atmosphere.
The northern province of Bac Giang organised a ceremony on June 15 to mark the first shipment of 56 tonnes of Luc Ngan fresh lychees to China from Kep railway station.
A programme to promote tourism in Luc Ngan district in the lychee harvest season kicked off at Bau Tien tourism area in the northern province of Bac Giang on June 13.
Highways, roads, and laneways in the “Kingdom of Lychee” - Luc Ngan district in Bac Giang province - are bursting these days with the reddish colour of lychees. Hundreds of cars and motorbikes loaded with the fruit form an endless line heading out for sale.
Though there are more than 10 days left until the main harvest season, many Chinese traders have already made their way to the Luc Ngan lychee barn in Bac Giang province to seek purchase agreements.
Luc Ngan district in the northern province of Bac Giang is applying measures to improve the quality and effectiveness of its fruit farming zones so as to become a key fruit growing centre of Vietnam in the near future.
Bac Giang province has worked with the Plant Protection Department at the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and exporting enterprises to prepare documents, conduct surveys, and issue codes for a planting area of 50 hectares of “thieu” litchi, for export to Japan.
The first batch of Vietnamese “Golden Lychee” which distinguishes itself from other varieties with yellowish skin and fresh sweetness has arrived in Australia and hit shelves in West Australia and South Australia.
Thieu lychee, a specialty of Luc Ngan district, northern Bac Giang province, is expected to soon be readily-found in one of the most choosy markets in the world - Japan - marking a major step in Vietnamese agricultural products reaching out to the globe.
The northern province of Bac Giang is planning a series of promotional events as this year’s peak harvest season nears, to promote and boost the export of its specialty lychee amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The northern province of Bac Giang will host a teleconference on June 6 to promote the domestic consumption and export of lychee, a local specialty, as the harvest season has just come.
This is the fourth year the fair was organised to connect consumption markets, including oversea market, to fruits and other popular products of the district.
Gardeners in Luc Ngan district, northern Bac Giang province, are enjoying early harvest of lychees with over 90,000 tonnes of fruits, up 35,000 tonnes over the same period last.
A new lychee crop has begun. Despite a lean harvest, promotion work for the fruit has been carried out from the beginning of the crop, promising high export value.
