Minister Do Duc Duy: Pay attention to caring for, connecting, and expanding the lychee consumption market

Receiving and working with the delegation, on the side of Bac Giang province, there were comrades: Nguyen Viet Oanh, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Phan The Tuan, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee and representatives of leaders of a number of departments, branches, Tan Yen and Luc Ngan districts, Chu town and a number of enterprises purchasing and processing lychee.

Ensure product quality, proactively promote consumption

Bac Giang identifies agricultural development as playing a particularly important role in the socio -economic development strategy, as a pillar of the economy. The province's agriculture develops comprehensively in a modern direction based on the foundation of high-tech agriculture, organic agriculture, clean agriculture, and development according to the advantages of each locality.

Working scene.

Among them, lychee is a famous product at home and abroad with an area of ​​about 29,700 hectares. Currently, lychee tea is in the fruit development stage. Early lychee is expected to start harvesting from May 20 to June 15, main crop lychee will start harvesting from June 10 to July 20.

Bac Giang considers product quality as the core factor that creates product value. At the same time, it will promote the consumption of lychees in domestic and foreign markets; support businesses, cooperatives, and business households to participate in trade promotion activities. In the coming time, the province plans to organize a series of activities to promote the consumption of lychees associated with the promotion and introduction of key, typical, and potential products of the province such as: Organizing a conference to promote the consumption of lychees and key, typical agricultural products, OCOP products of Bac Giang province in 2025; Lychee and key, typical agricultural products week of Bac Giang province in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern provinces; organizing a working delegation to promote trade of lychees and key, typical agricultural products of the province to attend the China-ASEAN import-export trade fair; a series of events to promote trade of lychees and key, typical agricultural products of the province in the European market...

The delegation visited the agricultural processing line at Vifoco Import Export Joint Stock Company (Bac Giang city).

The province continues to direct the Department of Agriculture and Environment to guide farmers to strictly follow technical measures for lychee care; harvest fruit at the right maturity, meeting domestic consumption and export standards; promote the application of scientific advances in agricultural production and processing to reduce costs and improve the quality of output products; closely monitor growing areas and packaging facilities according to the requirements of importing countries.

Proposal for support in market expansion and research to create new varieties

To have a successful lychee crop, some delegates suggested that the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment direct specialized agencies under the Ministry to support and coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and Environment to direct, plan, and forecast pest control, and resolve problems arising in the production and consumption of lychees this year.

Comrade Nguyen Viet Oanh spoke at the conference.

Complete the irradiation conditions as required by the US for the Hanoi Irradiation Center or build a new irradiation facility in the North to proactively irradiate agricultural products, including lychees exported to the US and Australian markets... Direct research institutes and schools to create lychee varieties that require less strict low temperatures to cope with climate change in the context of a warming climate; select and create new lychee varieties with high productivity and quality, suitable for local production conditions to supplement the province's lychee variety structure, especially for the early-ripening lychee variety group to expand the area of ​​early-ripening lychee to 30-35% to spread out the harvest. Research and transfer technical measures for lychee production that adapt to unusually hot and cold winter conditions to increase the ability to flower and set lychee fruit, avoid lychee crop failure or produce lychee out of season, and effective measures to prevent and control lychee pests, especially lychee stem borers.

Researching lychee preservation solutions associated with standardizing logistics processes to transport the best quality lychees to each market.

Continue to support the province in promoting and expanding the consumption market for agricultural products, especially for key agricultural products such as lychee, safe vegetables, and processed vegetables.

Some businesses have proposed capital support and connections to help businesses build areas for growing quality products; research technology to treat waste from lychee processing such as seeds and fruit peels; have solutions to ensure transparency in the origin of products so that people producing clean products can enjoy the right amount of effort, not equate products; strengthen links, create a stable consumption product chain.

Speaking at the conference, comrade Nguyen Viet Oanh said that the positive signals from the lychee crop are prospects for the growth of the province's agricultural sector this year. Over the years, Bac Giang has always planned and clearly defined agricultural production areas and considered agriculture as the mainstay of the economy despite its low proportion in the economy.

Minister Do Duc Duy talks with lychee purchasing businesses.

In the coming time, Bac Giang will continue to pay attention to agricultural development through cooperative support policies to build and form concentrated, large-scale production areas. Therefore, Bac Giang is always among the leading groups in the country in agricultural development. Bac Giang hopes to continue to receive support from the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment; direct the Ministry's specialized agencies to coordinate in assessing soil quality, implementing scientific advances on lychee to spread the harvest, deep processing, and improve product quality.

Accompanying to create green flow for lychee consumption

Concluding the conference, comrade Do Duc Duy assessed that Bac Giang is one of the localities with good agricultural development. Particularly, lychee has great competitiveness compared to other countries. Through reality, it shows that this year, farmers have a good lychee harvest, but how to solve the problem of product consumption, while improving the quality and value of lychee?

Lychee is characterized by being harvested in a short period of time and consumed mainly in fresh form. Over the years, the Ministry has always paid attention to this product to bring high income to people and supporting industries. Good production and consumption of lychee will greatly contribute to Bac Giang's agriculture sector in general and the agricultural, forestry and fishery sector of the whole country.

Minister Do Duc Duy concluded the working session.

On this occasion, he also praised Bac Giang's efforts throughout the process of building and developing lychee specialized growing areas. Up to now, lychee has become a national strength product with a large enough scale, cultivation techniques are being perfected according to advanced and smart processes, and exports are increasingly being made to high-end markets.

Achieving today's results is the result of proactive coordination and methodical work of the Party Committee, government and people from the production to consumption stages.

To successfully organize this year's lychee crop, he suggested that Bac Giang focus on tasks such as: Production management, closely monitoring weather and pests, having appropriate care solutions; strictly controlling the codes of growing areas and packaging facilities; ensuring food hygiene and safety.

Review consumption scenarios in all situations. Strengthen connections with supermarkets and wholesale markets, and replicate sales models on platforms.

Proactively arrange gathering points, transportation, and mobile cold storage to reduce congestion during peak harvest season.

Strengthen coordination between road, rail and air transport enterprises to create a green channel for lychee export. Bac Giang needs to encourage enterprises to invest in deep processing of products; continue to communicate synchronously, both promoting lychee and promoting local culture, with stories about lychee. Strengthen communication about Bac Giang lychee produced green and clean.

Review the planning of lychee growing areas based on the existing area for each region and product group. Continue to research and perfect the green, high-value farming process. The specialized agency of Bac Giang province will soon advise on studying the cooperation agreement between the Ministry and the province on implementing Resolution 57-NQ/TW on breakthroughs in science and technology development, innovation and national digital transformation to improve productivity, quality and sustainable agricultural development.

Enterprises need to proactively plan purchasing, preliminary processing, processing, and exporting for each market, ensuring traceability; urgently connect and invest in cold storage to temporarily preserve and process products when they have not been fully consumed.

The Ministry's specialized agencies send staff to support businesses in quarantine and product export procedures; monitor market prices of goods to promptly inform people and businesses.

With the above solutions, he hopes that local authorities, professional agencies, and businesses will join hands and unite to raise the brand of Bac Giang litchi.

Comrades: Do Duc Duy, Nguyen Viet Oanh and the working delegation visited the lychee export area of ​​Phuc Hoa commune (Tan Yen).

Previously, the delegation visited the lychee export production model in Phuc Hoa commune (Tan Yen); the lychee export packaging facility of Vifoco Import-Export Joint Stock Company (Bac Giang city).

News and photos: Trinh Lan - The Dai

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