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.
Increasing exports helped Bac Giang, the country’s lychee farming hub, obtain its most successful lychee crop in 2017, with the highest prices in six decades, heard a conference on August 2 in the northern province.
The first batch of one tonne of Luc Ngan “thieu” lychees was exported to Thailand by the Central Group (Thailand) and Hanoi-based Phong Son Tiem Limited Company.
A Luc Ngan “Thieu” lychee week, the second of its kind, opened on June 16 at Big C Thang Long shopping centre at 222 Tran Duy Hung, Cau Giay district, Hanoi.
The northern province of Bac Giang has earned around 3 trillion VND (about 135 million USD) from lychees and some 2 trillion VND (90 million USD) from related services so far this year.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc showed his backing of Hai Duong province’s scheme to build large-scale safe vegetable production models with the application of high technology.
The 2016 Luc Ngan - Bac Giang Lychee Week in Hanoi kicked off at the Big C Thang Long Supermarket on June 24 and will run through June 30.
The northern province of Bac Giang has so far exported over 32,215 tonnes of “thieu” lychee, a provincial specialty, to China, the US, Australia and Malaysia.
The northern province of Bac Giang has earned around 4 . 6 trillion VND (2 07 million USD) from lychee this year.
