Increased purchasing power

Visiting the family of Vu Van Phat in Truong Sinh hamlet, Tan Quang commune on the peak harvest season of sweet orange, we saw more than 10 laborers using the special scissors, yoke, stroller…to pick, transport, pack and load the fruits on the truck.

The farmers in Truong Sinh hamlet, Tan Quang commune harvest and pack the sweet orange.

Stopping to welcome the guests, Phat shared that this year his family has 800 sweet orange trees under harvest season with estimated productivity of about 15 tonnes. Thanks to the VietGAP application and biosafety cultivation, his fruits are uniform in size with higher quality and sold at average price of 30,000 VND (1.29 USD) per kilogram, bringing him an interest of over 300 million VND (over 12,900 USD) excluding the production cost.

Additionally, the couple helps boost up the consumption by purchasing and transporting the orange and pomelo of other local households to the gathering site to hand over to the tradesmen.

At the same hamlet, the household of Tran Dang Vinh is busy at harvesting the fruits. More than one hectare of yellow flesh orange, green skin pomelo, sweet orange and pomelo is expected to yield over 20 tonnes of fruits and bring back about 1 billion VND (over 43,000 USD).

Now, Vinh only balances nearly 10 tonnes of sweet orange which Hanoi based tradesmen deposited to buy for Tet’s market with an average price of 40 – 45,000 VND (1.72 – 1.94 USD) per kilogram.

According to the People’s Committee in Tan Quang commune, the locality has 443 hectares of orange and pomelo with an output of nearly 9,000 tonnes of fruits that are totally worth more than 232 billion VND (10 million USD), nearly doubling the figure last year.

Similarly, the households in Hong Giang commune have sold more than 5,000 tonnes of orange and pomelo, accounting for over 90 percent of the total productivity. The People’s Committee in Luc Ngan district informed that some 50,000 tonnes of citrus fruits have been consumed in the district, making up more than 80 percent of the total output, of which 100 percent of yellow flesh orange and green skin pomelo and 70 percent of sweet orange and pomelo are sold.

Active market linkage

The enterprises and cooperatives in the district have actively expanded the domestic markets by introducing the orange and pomelo to the big supermarkets and wholesale markets in Hanoi city, Ho Chi Minh city, Central and Central Highland provinces.

The farmers in Huu hamlet, Tru Huu commune harvest the orange.

Pham Van Dung, Director of Hong Xuan Agriculture Cooperative of General Services Producing and Trading said: “We are serving the order of Big C Supermarket that requires over 70 tonnes of sweet orange and green jujube. Besides, the Cooperative has supplied about 500 tonnes of orange, 350 tonnes of jujube and over 38,000 pomelos to the wholesale markets in Bac Ninh province and Hanoi city. As expected, the demand on the occasion of Lunar New Year will highly increase; hence we sufficiently store the goods”.

Also, the businesses and tradesmen in Hanoi city and Southern provinces have flocked to Luc Ngan district to buy the fruits for over one month. After being classified and packed, hundreds of tonnes of orange and pomelo are daily transported by containers to the Southern markets.

Apart from the big weighting points, many visitors knew about the trademark and quality of Luc Ngan fruits via the Luc Ngan trade fair of orange, pomelo and signature products in 2018. After that, several of them become the selling agency and distributor to bring Luc Ngan fruits to other provinces.

This year, the harvest season of Luc Ngan fruit will last till next month. Almost all of the remaining areas have been basically deposited by the businessmen, groups of tradesmen and enterprises for Tet holiday.

Nguyen Van Hai, Head of the Economy and Infrastructure Division in Luc Ngan district spoke highly of the success orange and pomelo crop that brought huge income to the farmers in the district. The district People’s Committee has instructed the competent agencies to guide the households and cooperatives to focus on post-harvest caring and preparing the condition to the next crops.

Over 15,000 tonnes of citrus fruits for Tet market

(BGO) – According to the Division of Agriculture and Rural Development in Luc Ngan district, Bac Giang province, it is the peak harvest season of the sweet orange and pomelo serving to the Tet market. 

 

Over 135 tonnes of fruits sold at Luc Ngan fair for orange, pomelo and signature products

(BGO) – According to a local representative in Luc Ngan district People’s Committee in the northern province of Bac Giang, after three days, over 135 tonnes of fruits were sold at the Luc Ngan fair 2018 for orange, pomelo and signature products as of November 26. 

 

Citrus fruits yield over 50,000 tonnes in Luc Ngan district

(BGO) – According to the Division of Agriculture and  Rural Development in Luc Ngan district, Bac Giang province, the district has more than 6,400 hectares growing citrus trees. 

 

Bringing sweet fruits to Hanoi consumers

(BGO) - From June 13 to 20, at Big C Thang Long Supermarket in Hanoi, the Departments of Industry and Trade of Bac Giang province and Hanoi are jointly organizing the “Luc Ngan – Bac Giang Litchi Week in Hanoi".

 

Tan Yen yields about 160 tonnes of star apple fruits

(BGO) – According to the representative of Hop Duc Star Apple Fruits Production and Consumption Cooperative, there are about 20 hectares growing the star apple fruit under VietGAP ready to be harvested in the whole district of Tan Yen, Bac Giang province.

 

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