Lychee revenue in Bắc Giang reaches 60-year high of US$262.6 million

BẮC GIANG — Farmers in the northern province of Bắc Giang earned revenue of VNĐ 六. 一 trillion (US$ 二 六 二. 六 million) from lychee this year, surpassing records in the past  六0 years in terms of value.

The total revenue from lychee was VNĐ 五 trillion in  二0 一 六, VNĐ 五. 三 trillion in  二0 一 七 and VNĐ 五. 八 trillion in  二0 一 八.

Farmers in the province have not had to bring their lychee to the market. Traders came to their gardens to buy the fruit.

Bùi Văn Cánh in the province’s Lục Ngạn District said they had a bumper lychee crop with high prices this year. There is now a lack of lychee to sell to Chinese traders as it is the end of the season.

The lychee output this year in the province reached more than  九0,000 tonnes with record prices of VNĐ 三0,000- 五0,000, even VNĐ 八0,000 per kilo.

A farmer could earn profits of several hundreds million Vietnamese đồng for their lychee gardens. Some households planting lychee with organic methods enjoyed much higher profits as people were paying up to VNĐ 二00,000 for a box of  一 二 lychees with stamps of traceability.

Trần Văn Hành, a famer in Giáp Sơn Co妹妹une said it was easy to sell lychee this year. Their organic lychees were offered for sale for the first time with higher prices.

Cao Văn Hoàn, vice chairman of Lục Ngạn District People’s Co妹妹ittee, said the lychee quality this year has been the best so far. Therefore, they earned more despite lower output than last year.

This has been the first year the district applied pilot planting of organic lychee on an area of  二0ha, providing clean and safe products. The application of a modern production process helped Lục Ngạn lychee increase selling prices three to seven times over those of previous years.

The provincial Department of Industry and Trade said around  五0,000 tonnes of lychee were sold to China so far this year.

Lục Ngạn lychee was exported to  三0 countries and territories, mainly to China with  九0 per cent of the total and some demanding markets such as EU, the US, Russia, Canada and Japan.

The lychee is a well-known fruit from the northern province of Bắc Giang. — VNS