Luc Ngan "Thieu" lychee week opens in Hanoi (Photo: san24h.vn)Hanoi (VNA) – A Luc Ngan “Thieu” lychee week, the second of its kind, opened on June16 at Big C Thang Long shopping centre at 222 Tran Duy Hung, Cau Giay district,Hanoi.
During theweek-long event, big supermarkets and wholesale markets will sign contractswith Luc Ngan businesses, cooperatives and farm owners to buy lychees.
According tothe Department of Commerce and Industry of the northern province of Bac Giang,this year’s lychee production is estimated to hit 100,000 tonnes, equivalent to70 percent of the previous year’s output. Of them, there are 26,000 tonnes ofearly-ripening lychees and 74,000 main-crop lychees.
About 40,000tonnes of fresh lychees are expected to be shipped to China, representing 80percent of this year’s lychee exports, said the department.
Apart from China,the province has also expanded consumption markets to the US, the EU, Japan andthe Republic of Korea.-VNA
