(BGO) – Tan Yen district (Bac Giang province) is now home to
a total area of over 3,300 ha of fruit tree cultivation, 2,600 ha of which is
ready for harvesting with total productivity of 24,174 tonnes.
As the local key plant, the early ripen lychee yielded 12,950 tonnes of fruit this year with estimated value of nearly 400 billion VND (17.2 million USD).
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The lychee cultivation area in Phuc Hoa commune.
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Besides, the star apple is grown in 42 ha with an output of 190 tonnes while the guava covers 184 ha with the productivity of 820 tonnes.
To increase the economic value of the fruit trees, the district People’s Committee instructed the communes to focus on following VietGAP procedure in cultivating 1,200 ha, enhance to inspect and supervise the farmers in execution of the set standard.
Particularly, this year the district granted the VietGAP certificate to over 100 ha of fruit cultivation area, including 35.3 ha of guava, 5 ha of star apple and 60 ha of early ripen lychee mostly in the communes of Cao Thuong, Hop Duc, Phuc Hoa and Tan Trung that makes the total fruit area grown under VietGAP standard up to 308.3 ha in the district.
Bac Giang develops lychee economy
(BGO) - Minister of
Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong made the remark when
witnessing the ways Bac Giang has done in recent lychee crops. The impression
of the head of the country’s agricultural sector is also shared by many
domestic and foreign businessmen and partners.
1,000 tonnes of lychees ordered to process for export and comsume at supermarket
(BGO) – According to the Department of Industry and Trade,
there are 3 enterprises in the northern province of Bac Giang buying the lychee
for processing, namely Toan Cau Food Export Import Joint Stock Company (Luc
Ngan district), Bac Giang Big C Supermarket and Vifoco Export Import Joint
Stock Company (Bac Giang city).
9 tonnes of lychee exported to US and Australia
(BGO) – Cao Van Hoan, Permanent Vice Chairman of the People’s
Committee in Luc Ngan district, Bac Giang province informed that the first
5-ton and 4-ton batches of lychee were exported to the US and Australia
respectively while the promotion campaigns have been done in several markets of
Japan, Republic of Korea, Singapore…so as to introduce the fruits to the native
customers.
Thanh Tam
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