Bac Giang eyes to export more lychees(Photo: congthuong.vn)
Bac Giang (VNA) - Deputy Prime Minister Vuong DinhHue has stressed the importance of quality management and traceabilityfor lychee, a speciality fruit of the northern province of BacGiang, to meet export requirements for China and other potential markets.
The leader made the statement at a forum on the production and consumptionof lychee and promotion of tourism, held in Bac Giang province on May 29 aslocal growers started the lychee harvest season for the year.
Hue asked relevant ministries and sectors to add local fruit and other productsto the national list of agricultural products exported to the Chinese market.He also requested they provide Bac Giang with market informationand help the province expand domestic and foreign consumption throughtrade promotion programmes in foreign countries.
“We need to help Bac Giang's businesses access modern technology topreserve and process lychee and develop tourism products,” Hue said.
He said local authorities and partners in China need to strengthentrade connections to create the best conditions for Chinese tradersto purchase lychee from the province and invest in agricultureand tourism services.
Administrative procedures for Chinese partners must be simplified in order toassist the export of lychee to China in the shortest time, he said.
At the forum, Commercial Counsellor at theChinese Embassy in Hanoi Ho Doa Gin lauded the quality of Vietnamese lychee,saying it matches the tastes of Chinese consumers.
He said China would create favourable conditions for the import of theproduct.
Many large domestic distributors such as Saigon co.op and BigC alsoplan to purchase and sell Bac Giang lychee.
A representative of Central Group Vietnam, which owns the BigC supermarketchain, said the group was actively supporting the production and sale of BacGiang lychee.
“This year's lychee season, we have committed to purchasing 350 tonnesnationwide. Today, Central Group Vietnam pledged to buy six containers oflychee to sell at Big C supermarkets and Lan Chisupermarkets, our strategic partner,” the representative said.
"One container will be exported to Thailand this year,” the representativesaid.
Deputy Chairman of the Bac Giang People's Committee Duong Van Thai said theprovince was entering the first days of the 2019 lychee harvest.
“We are committed to creating the most favourable conditions to assist growers,businesses and both domestic and foreign traders in the harvesting,processing and sale of lychee,” Thai said.
Bac Giang is known as the largest concentrated fruit growing area in the Northof Vietnam with a total area of nearly50,000ha. Its 28,000ha of lychee are seen as the largest hubin the country with an annual output of more than 150,000 tonnes.
The brand name of Bac Giang lychee is protected in eight countries including theRepublic of Korea, China, Japan, Singapore and Australia. Last year, the fruitwas certified by the Southeast Asian Records Organisation as one of the Top 10specialities of Southeast Asia.-VNA
