Of the total five tonnes exported on June 18, the remaining four tonnes are being transported by sea. Upon their arrival in Japan, the Vietnamese lychee will be put on shelves at AEON supermarkets and at focal points of importers including VIENT Corporation, Yufruit and Sunrise Farm.

Vietnamese lychee fruits remain fresh when arriving in Japan.

En route to admitting Vietnamese lychee into Japan, the two sides spent a long time, from 2014, organising lychee promotions in the Japanese market and introducing technologies in fresh lychee preservation, steam treatment, sterilisation and transportation. The inspection process was conducted in a strict manner under the supervision of authorities from both sides.

Vietnamese trade counsellor in Japan Ta Duc Minh said that the Japanese market is not a large lychee importer, but it still has great development potential as most Japanese consumers are not familiar or do not know much about lychee, its taste or how to eat it.

He stressed the extreme need to enhance the promotion of Vietnamese lychee to Japanese people so that they may learn more about such a tasty fruit.

The first batch of fresh Vietnamese lychee lands in Japan.

Because lychee harvest takes place over a relatively short period of time, the volume of fruit exported in a single season is not very significant. Therefore, manufacturers need to consider products with deep processing and added value, such as frozen lychee, fresh lychee juice, lychee jelly or other products made from lychee, Minh stated.

It is expected that nearly 200 tonnes of fresh Vietnamese lychee will be exported to the Japanese market this year. To ensure the volume of goods, the Vietnamese trade office in Japan has been coordinating with some Japanese import focal points, such as AEON, VIENT Corporation, Yufruit, and Sunrise Farm, and some Vietnamese export focal points, including Red Dragon, Chanh Thu and Ameii, to continue promoting the export of lychee shipments to Japan.

Chinese traders start buying lychee

(BGO) – The Steering Board for Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control in Luc Ngan district (Bac Giang province) on June 16 granted the Certificate of Medical Quarantine Completion for pandemic prevention to 21 Chinese traders to buy lychee in Luc Ngan district. Thus, they started buying the fruits directly from June 17.

Over 37 tonnes of lychee sold via MoMo pocket

(BGO) – After one week selling Luc Ngan lychee online via MoMo pocket, to date over 37 tonnes of fruits have been sold online to customers in Ho Chi Minh city.

Bustling atmosphere in ripe lychee season

In the early days of June, people in the two districts of Thanh Ha (Hai Duong province) and Luc Ngan (Bac Giang province) harvest lychees in a husty and eager manner. The 2020 crop is looking to to be a fruitful season for lychee farmers, with production levels and selling prices both increasing. 

Bac Giang lychee well consumed at supermarkets and restaurants

(BGO) – As of June 14, Bac Giang province has sold more than 54,000 tonnes of lychee. Apart from the foreign markets, many provinces, cities, big wholesales markets nationwide, the fruits are now well consumed at many supermarkets and restaurants in the province.    

Lychee consumed to export to US market

(BGO) – Vina T&T Group on June 11 started buying lychees in Luc Ngan district (Bac Giang province) to export to the US. 

Fresh lychee preservation procedure completed

(BGO) – According to the Department of Science and  Technology (Bac Giang province), Vietnam Institute of Agricultural Engineering & Post-Harvest Technology has completed the technological procedure for the Israeli Juran’s system to classify and treat the fresh lychee.   

Source: NDO