Joy of early lychee ripening season

application of scientific and technological advances in farming fabric, thereby continuously improving quality. Agricultural products are associated with large-scale commodity production, serving domestic consumption needs as well as export. Currently, in the early-ripening lychee growing areas in the province, farmers are busy harvesting early lychees.

5,000m2 of lychee growing area of Ms. Pham Thi Dung's family - Ninh Binh area, Binh Khe ward has a good harvest.

Dong Trieu is the locality with the largest lychee growing area in the province with more than 886 hectares. Grasping the market trend, farmers in the city have converted part of the lychee growing area to graft early-ripening lychee. This lychee variety is harvested one month earlier than the other lychee, so farmers can sell it at a better price. Currently, early-ripening lychee gardens in Dong Trieu are preparing to harvest.

With 5,000m2 of early-ripening lychee varieties were grafted onto 100 old lychee trees of the family since 2017. After a period of care and monitoring, up to now, the entire early-ripening lychee garden of Ms. Pham Thi Dung's family in Ninh Binh area, Binh Khe ward has entered the 6th year of harvest. In this year's early lychee crop, the family's lychee garden has borne fruit and is starting to get ready to be harvested. Ms. Pham Thi Dung, My garden is expected to be harvested in 10 days, but from today On May 24, my family started pruning the early ripening trees and expected to finish harvesting the early lychee crop by June 5. With 100 lychee trees this year, my family's garden harvested about 10 tons.

Of the total lychee growing area of Dong Trieu City, over 886 hectares, early-ripening lychees alone account for 127.5 hectares. In this early-ripening lychee crop in 2025, farmers in the city are very excited, because the expected yield is expected to increase by 15 to 20% compared to the previous crop. Early-ripening lychee varieties in Dong Trieu are mostly grafted. The branches on the lychee tree make the lychee fruit more fragrant and sweeter. In Binh Khe ward alone, there are 14 areas, 4 of which have early-ripening lychee growing areas: Ninh Binh, Dong Son, Phu Ninh and Xuan Binh.

Early ripening lychee variety PH40 was successfully grown on Dong Trieu land.

Mr. Le Anh Van, Vice Chairman of Binh Khe Ward People's Committee, said: The area of lychee growing in the ward is over 100 hectares, of which early-ripening lychee harvested this year is about 40 hectares. At this time, early-ripening lychee trees Preparing for the harvest, the ward has also directed professional staff and Binh Khe Agricultural Service Cooperative to coordinate with local people to take care of lychee trees to achieve optimal productivity.

Farmers are excited to harvest early ripe lychees.

In Uong Bi City, the early-ripening lychee growing area is concentrated in the South, and gardeners are currently busy harvesting lychees. The area of early-ripening lychee growing here is nearly 300 hectares. This is also one of 17 concentrated agricultural production areas of Quang Ninh and one of 7 concentrated agricultural production areas of the city. Uong Bi . From 2018 to present, 13.5 billion VND from the provincial budget, Uong Bi City and counterpart funds from the people have been used to implement projects to produce Phuong Nam early-ripening litchi according to VietGAP process; standardize data on growing area codes for domestic consumption and export as well as apply technical advances to ensure the best quality of Phuong Nam early-ripening litchi.

Farmers in Phuong Nam, Uong Bi City are excited to harvest early-ripening lychees in 2025.

Mr. Nguyen Van Tiep, group 1, Hiep Thanh area, Phuong Nam ward, Share: My garden has 80 lychee trees, all of which are grown according to the VietGAP process, which was transferred from the Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection of the province and the Technical Service Center of Uong Bi City. Up to now, we have maintained this practice for 5 years. This year, due to the dry weather without much rain, but with the attention of the local authorities, they organized pumps to bring water to the fields for the people, combined with the application of care techniques, so up to now, the results have been very good. The lychee trees bear fruit, large fruit, beautiful appearance, no stem worms, so the selling price remains stable at 35,000-38,000 VND/kg, on average, my family also harvests about 1 quintal of fruit/tree.

The area of early-ripening lychee growing in Dong Trieu and Uong Bi is cultivated by farmers using VietGAP process.

Currently, farmers growing early-ripening lychees in Phuong Nam are starting to harvest. Compared to previous years, this year's lychees have fewer stem borers and beautiful appearance, so the price at the beginning of the season is stable, fluctuating from 35,000 - 40,000 VND/kg, creating an exciting atmosphere for farmers to harvest and sell their products. It is expected that this year's early-ripening lychee crop will bring in a revenue of 50-60 billion VND for farmers in Phuong Nam, Uong Bi City.

Traders come to the garden to put down money in advance to buy early ripening lychees.

Mr. Nguyen Khac Long, Deputy Head of the Provincial Department of Cultivation and Plant Protection, said: For this lychee tree, the Department also closely coordinates with the locality to manage food safety well. Along with that, the Department also regularly organizes training courses for farmers to apply and maintain good production according to VietGAP process; implement Standardize growing area code data for domestic consumption and export to produce safe lychee, thereby contributing to increasing the value of agricultural products in the market.

Hai Ha

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