Farmers in Hai Duong province are very excited because of the lychee season this year. Lychee has been exported to many countries so the selling price is very high. In Bac Giang, the lychee price at the beginning of the season is also higher than last year.
Lychee growers in Tan Yen district (Bac Giang) are excited when the lychee price is high. (Photo: Nguyen Thang)
Although there are 15 days left to enter the main harvest, many traders and enterprises have contacted Ms. Nguyen Thi Thu’s family (Thanh Hong commune, Thanh Ha district, Hai Duong) for buying lychee. Ms. Thu’s 15 tonnes of lychee are being purchased at the price of 38,000 – 40,000 VND/kg, twice as high as the previous year.
“There are almost no pests this season. Lychee is qualified for export to many markets. With the current selling price and output, growers are very excited, ” Ms. Thu said.
Representatives of V-Phuc Green Agricultural Cooperative (Thanh Ha, Hai Duong) said that they have coordinated with exporters to export more than 11 tonnes of lychee to the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. After a long time of following GlobalGAP standards, members of the cooperative are now very closely linked and do not have to worry about the output. The cooperative expects to export about 200 tonnes of GlobalGAP-standardized lychee to the EU market. The purchasing price at gardens has now been at a record high for many years now. It is expected that Thanh Ha lychee exported to EU countries will be sold for 600,000 to 650,000 VND/kg.
Ms. Ngo Thi Thu Hong – General Director of Ameii Vietnam Joint Stock Company, said that after a period of time bringing lychee into the markets quite successfully, the number of customers ordering lychee has increased rapidly this year, especially customers in difficult markets such as Japan and the EU.
According to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Hai Duong, the province currently has 8,900 hectares of lychee. This year, the province continues to maintain 41 lychee regions under VietGAP standards with an area of 500 hectares and 11 lychee production regions under GlobalGAP standards with an area of 110 hectares. The province’s lychee products are available in most provinces and cities in the country and are exported to major markets such as China, Japan, the United States, France, Australia, and Singapore.
Lychee has a good price at the beginning of the season
In Bac Giang, many lychee growers are excited when the consumption of lychee is favorable with higher prices than last year. In the early morning of May 31, Mr. Duong Van Can, an experienced grower in Thai Hoa village, Phuc Hoa commune (Tan Yen district), carried more than 100 kg of lychee to the collecting point near the commune center for sale. After just a few minutes of bargaining, more than 100 kg of his lychee was bought by the trader at 28,000 VND/kg. Holding the money in his hand, Mr. Duong Van Can shared that his family planted 70 lychee trees with an estimated output of about 5 tonnes. His family harvested them for sale 10 days ago. Mr. Can said that, with the current price of lychee, his family made profits, and other families in his village also sold lychee at high prices.
Also on the morning of May 31, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Minh in Phuc Hoa commune sold nearly 200 kg of lychee to a collecting point. He sold them for 26,000 VND/kg. “We are very excited when the price of lychee is as high as now. I have sold almost four tonnes of lychee, ”Mr. Minh said.
Ms. Dao Thu Phuong, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tan Yen district, said that the whole district has a total lychee area of 1,340 ha, with an output of about 16,500 tonnes. Up to now, Tan Yen district has consumed more than 4,500 tonnes of lychee at a higher price than last year.
Mr. Nguyen The Thi, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Luc Ngan district, said that the past two days, lychee harvest season has just started. Every day, Luc Ngan district sells over 75 tonnes of lychee, at 28,000 – 35,000 VND/kg. The price of lychee sold early this year in the district is also higher than last year.