Revenue from Bac Giang's lychee crop reaches over 296 million USD

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Recently, the Bac Giang Provincial People's Committee announced that, its 2021 lychee crop has earned over 296 million USD in revenues from fruit sales and related services. Amid COVID-19 pandemic, this outcome is considered a fruitful crop of Bac Giang.

As reported, farmers in the province sold more than 215,000 tonnes of Thieu lychee this year, up over 50,000 tonnes from the 2020 crop, for an average price of 0.86 USD/kg.

Of the amount, 126,000 tonnes (58.6%) were sold on the domestic market and more than 89,000 tonnes (41.4%) were export. Besides the traditional market of China, Bac Giang’s Thieu lychees have also found their way into many other countries such as Japan, the US, Australia, and those in Southeast Asia, the EU and the Middle East.

In the coming time, Bac Giang plans to keep the area under Thieu lychee stable at 28,100 ha while expanding the acreage of lychee cultivated under VietGAP and GlobalGAP standards as well as the areas with cultivation area codes for export to the US, Japan and China.

For better fruit quality and higher value, the province will continuously encourage farmers to apply advanced cultivation techniques, aiming to increase export of the local specialty fruit.