Deploying an e-commerce platform, promoting online to the Singapore market … is one of many solutions that Bac Giang has implemented to facilitate the consumption of lychee in the complicated conditions of COVID-19 translation, making the It is difficult for foreign traders to buy fabrics directly.

In order to diversify sales channels and promote thieu litchi products to domestic and foreign markets, the People’s Committee of Luc Ngan district has a policy of establishing the Luc Ngan thieu litchi e-commerce trading floor in 2020.

This is the first time Luc Ngan has deployed thieu litchi e-commerce platform. Expected, the exchange will be opened in early June this.

To ensure the opening and efficient operation of the trading floor, the People’s Committee of Luc Ngan district assigns the District Farmers Association and Luc Ngan Thieu Consumption Consumption and Production Association to coordinate with the Link Stars Logistics JSC HCMC) training of farmers’ associations in communes, towns, banks and representatives of cooperatives, traders who produce, process and consume agricultural products on solutions such as cold storage of canned agricultural products. , multimodal transport, export to potential markets of China, EU, Japan … At the same time helping students grasp general information about Luc Ngan lychee trading floor, management skills , monitoring floor activities; how to increase revenue, profit, create customers’ confidence in Luc Ngan lychee brand, to meet the needs of business activities in the unit.

Before that, on the morning of May 29, Bac Giang Department of Industry and Trade in coordination with the Vietnam Trade Office in Singapore and the Department of Trade Promotion (Ministry of Industry and Trade) organized an online conference to promote the consumption of lychees and other products. key agricultural products of Bac Giang province enter this market.

The conference attracted thousands of people who are representatives of agencies, businesses, associations, commodity sectors buying, processing and consuming agricultural products in the country and Singapore to participate at 88 bridge points.

Mr. Tran Quang Tan, Director of the Department of Industry and Trade, said that Bac Giang has 15,000 ha of thieu litchi produced according to VietGAP standards; 218,000 hectares of production according to GlobalGAP standards, issued with IRADS codes by the US The Japanese authorities approved 19 codes of growing areas; The Chinese authorities have approved 149 planting area codes and 288 packaging facilities … ready to meet the conditions and meet the quantity of exports to Singapore.

Bac Giang commits the provincial authorities to simplify administrative procedures, create maximum favorable conditions for businesses and traders to supervise the purchase and consumption of lychees, especially the players. continuity related to foreign businesses and traders; absolutely not to let administrative procedures happen affecting the consumption of thieu litchi.

Currently, the Singapore market is very fond of Vietnamese litchi fruits because of its aroma and deliciousness, but mainly imports Vietnamese lychees through Chinese traders, the amount of direct imports from Vietnam is still limited. Therefore, bringing Bac Giang lychee to Singapore market is very important, creating a premise for the export of other key agricultural products of the province.

Early thieu litchi consumption in Bac Giang is favorable

Up to 15:00 on 1/6, the total output of thieu litchi of the province early consumption was estimated at 16,725 tons, with an average selling price of 25,000 VND / kg (the beginning price of the crop was sometimes 45,000 VND / kg).

Bac Giang’s early lychees are mainly concentrated in Tan Yen and Luc Nam districts, which are in a period of harvest with favorable basic consumption. Each day in Tan Yen district alone consumes about 1,000 tons.

Currently, only Vietnamese traders and traders buy thieu lychee from Bac Giang and there are no Chinese traders.

Traders buy at weight points, then transport for consumption by container trucks, trucks, and motorcycles. Consumption market of Bac Giang lychee at the beginning of this crop was mainly domestically such as in provinces and cities such as Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Lao Cai … and neighboring provinces.

Bac Giang province leaders said that thieu litchi is the key crop in the province’s agricultural economic development. Every year, the production value of lychee is estimated at about 4,000-4,500 billion VND (excluding additional revenue from ancillary services), accounting for 25-28% of the value of the province’s cultivation industry.

In the crop year 2020, although the weather is not favorable, the lychee in the province is expected to reach an output of about 160,000 tons, 10,000 tons higher than the previous year.

This result is due to the high concentration of localities, branches and people in the province in expanding the production area of ​​care fabric according to VietGAP, GlobalGAP, organic standards … Many technical solutions. It has just been applied, along with the creative ways of caring and preventing pests of the garden owners, so the productivity, quality and design of thieu litchi fruit in Bac Giang this year are more beautiful.

Bac Giang province has actively focused on directing production right from the beginning of the crop, early building plans, plans, scenarios and solutions for consumption as well as creating the most favorable conditions for businesses and traders. come to learn, purchase and consume lychee.

Up to now, Bac Giang lychee has been exported and consumed to more than 30 countries and regions. However, the Chinese market is still defined as the traditional market. At the same time, the province continues to export strategy to Japan, South Korea, Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore … At the same time, the province also expands lychee exports to other demanding markets such as Middle East, EU, US, Canada …