Measures sought to help Bac Giang export more lychee
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Bac Giang (VNA) - Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh
Hue has stressed the importance of quality management and traceability
for lychee, a speciality fruit of the northern province of Bac
Giang, to meet export requirements for China and other potential markets.
The leader made the statement at a forum on the production and consumption
of lychee and promotion of tourism, held in Bac Giang province on May 29 as
local growers started the lychee harvest season for the year.
Hue asked relevant ministries and sectors to add local fruit and other products
to the national list of agricultural products exported to the Chinese market.
He also requested they provide Bac Giang with market information
and help the province expand domestic and foreign consumption through
trade promotion programmes in foreign countries.
“We need to help Bac Giang's businesses access modern technology to
preserve and process lychee and develop tourism products,” Hue said.
He said local authorities and partners in China need to strengthen
trade connections to create the best conditions for Chinese traders
to purchase lychee from the province and invest in agriculture
and tourism services.
Administrative procedures for Chinese partners must be simplified in order to
assist the export of lychee to China in the shortest time, he said.
At the forum, Commercial Counsellor at the
Chinese 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 the
product.
Many large domestic distributors such as Saigon co.op and BigC also
plan to purchase and sell Bac Giang lychee.
A representative of Central Group Vietnam, which owns the BigC supermarket
chain, said the group was actively supporting the production and sale of Bac
Giang lychee.
“This year's lychee season, we have committed to purchasing 350 tonnes
nationwide. Today, Central Group Vietnam pledged to buy six containers of
lychee to sell at Big C supermarkets and Lan Chi
supermarkets, our strategic partner,” the representative said.
"One container will be exported to Thailand this year,” the representative
said.
Deputy Chairman of the Bac Giang People's Committee Duong Van Thai said the
province 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 North
of Vietnam with a total area of nearly
50,000ha. Its 28,000ha of lychee are seen as the largest hub
in 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 the
Republic of Korea, China, Japan, Singapore and Australia. Last year, the fruit
was certified by the Southeast Asian Records Organisation as one of the Top 10
specialities of Southeast Asia.-VNA