These days, farmers in many localities in Phu Cu district are entering the harvest season of early-ripening hybrid lychee....

These days, farmers in many localities in Phu Cu district are entering the harvest season of early-ripening hybrid lychee....

In Tam Da commune, which is known as the "capital" of early-ripening hybrid lychee, the roads in the commune are crowded with large and small cars of traders coming to buy litchi. Lychee growers in the commune take advantage of the early morning, cool weather, to quickly harvest litchi to ensure quality and design with the desire to sell high prices to traders. Mr. Dang Van Vien, Tam Da village, Tam Da commune said: My family has planted 1 acre of lychee and started harvesting about 4 days ago. Due to erratic weather, my family's production has decreased by 30% as compared to the previous year. The selling price of lychee at the beginning of the season is from 12 thousand to 15 thousand VND/kg, lower than last year's price.

People in Tam Da commune harvest early-ripening hybrid lychee

Currently, the whole Tam Da commune has over 240 ha of early-ripening hybrid litchi, of which the harvested area is about 220 ha. This year, due to adverse weather, nearly the time for harvesting, litchi trees are ill, causing low yield. It is estimated that the output of early-ripening hybrid litchi in the whole commune is about 2 thousand tons of fruits. Mr. Nguyen Tien Thieu, Director of Thang Loi Agricultural Cooperative (Tam Da commune) said: The early-ripening hybrid lychee of Tam Da commune has been granted an export code to the Chinese market. In previous years, early-ripening hybrid litchi products have participated in trade fairs to advertise and promote consumption of agricultural products at a number of large supermarkets across the country. However, this year due to the complicated situation of the Covid-19 epidemic, up to now, Tam Da's early-ripening hybrid lychee has not been able to reach major supermarket chains in the country and the main consumption is from focal point for purchasing in the province and neighboring provinces. The price is completely dependent on the trader.

In these days, farmers in Minh Tien commune mobilize maximum human resources to harvest lychees at the right time, ensuring quality and product design. To quickly choose red ripe fruits, bundle in bunches to timely deliver to the traders, Mr. Nguyen Van Tuan, Minh Tien commune shared: When litchi trees flower, the weather is favorable, the fruiting rate is relatively high. However, near the time of harvest, litchi tree has become sick, and the fruit has fallen a lot, causing a sharp decrease in yield.

The whole Phu Cu district has over 700 ha of early-ripening hybrid lychee and about 90% of the area is being harvested. It is estimated that this year's lychee production will reach over 5 thousand tons of fruits (the output of early-ripening hybrid litchi in 2020 was about 7 thousand tons). Phu Cu’s early-ripening hybrid litchi is large fruit, bright color, less decay on head and the outstanding advantage is the very early harvest time as compared to lychee products in some provinces in the country. Therefore, Phu Cu’s early-ripening hybrid lychee is known to many people, when the harvest season comes, traders from the provinces come to order a lot. Phu Cu’s early-ripening hybrid litchi product has been granted a certification mark by the National Office of Intellectual Property, evaluated, ranked and recognized by the Provincial People's Committee as a 3-star and 4-star OCOP product.

This year, when the early-ripening hybrid lychee harvest is about to come, the local government as well as litchi growers in Phu Cu could not help worrying about the consumption market because of the complicated situation of the Covid-19 epidemic. However, around May 15, when early-ripening hybrid litchi growers in Phu Cu started harvesting, traders from other provinces come to buy products. This year, due to the complicated situation of the Covid-19 epidemic, in order to support people to consume agricultural products and ensure safety in the epidemic prevention and control, Phu Cu district has asked localities to closely monitor traders to buy litchi; arrange forces to guide traders to make medical declarations; disinfect freight cars, at the same time, the police force organizes traffic flow to ensure no congestion at roads and places of purchasing litchi, creating favorable conditions for traders to buy litchi from people.  

According to the research, the consumption of early-ripening hybrid lychee in Phu Cu district for many years has depended mainly on traders inside and outside the province. Along with that, litchi growers are used to passively waiting for buyers to come to the garden to pay the price and purchase, but they have not taken any proactive measures to find a stable consumption market. The time to harvest early-ripening hybrid litchi is short, only about 15-20 days, while in the district there is no fresh lychee processing facility or factory so when the harvest time comes, litchi growers only rely on selling fresh lychees for traders. The number of early-ripening hybrid lychee sold in large supermarkets is very limited. Therefore, the up - down price is completely decided by traders.

It is hoped that in the near future, along with the development of specialized areas for growing early-ripening hybrid litchi, increasing productivity and fruit output, local authorities as well as functional sectors need to make long-term orientation to promote lychee products, create linkage between agro-processing establishments and enterprises nationwide to purchase fresh lychee products for people; there is a breakthrough in the "4 houses" link to build a stable and long-term consumption market, avoiding the often-repeated problem of "having a good season but selling at low price".

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