Vietnamese lychess have for the first time been put on shelves of Costco, the largest retail chain in the US with 635 stores across the US and Canada, according to the Việt Nam Trade Office in San Francisco.
Lục Ngạn District in Bắc Giang Province, known as “the capital of lychee”, will host the “Lục Ngạn Lychee – The Quintessence of Vietnamese Fruit” festival from 6 to 7 June.
This surge is attributed to adverse weather conditions that significantly reduced Bắc Giang’s lychee output, which now stands at nearly 100,000 tonnes, around half of last year''s production.
Farmers in the northern province of Bac Giang earned revenue of VND6.1 trillion (US$262.6 million) from lychee this year, surpassing records in the past 60 years in terms of value.
Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ yesterday highlighted the importance of quality management and traceability for lychee, a speciality fruit of the northern province of Bắc Giang, to meet export requirements.
The volume of fresh lychees exported to China through the border gates
of northern mountainous Lao Cai province is expected to reach 50,000
tonnes in 2013.