Central Retail Group commits to consuming over 2,300 tonnes of lychee and farm produce of Bac Giang

(BGO) – Vice Chairman of Bac Giang provincial People’s Committee (PPC) Phan The  Tuan on May 16 had a working session with Central Retail Group (CRG) about cooperation plan to consume lychee in 2023.

According to the Department of Industry and Trade (DoIT), this year, the province develops 29,700 hectares of lychee with estimated quantity of over 180,000 tonnes, including about 113,800 tonnes of VietGAP lychee, 1,000 tonnes of Global GAP lychee.

The view at the meeting.

The early ripening lychee will be harvested from May 25 till June 15 while the official fruit will ripen from June 10 till July 30. About 81,000 tonnes of fruits are expected to be sold domestically while the remaining ones are for export.

In 2022, the provincial businesses and cooperatives introduced 230 tonnes of lychee to the supermarket chain of CRG, up 81.1 percent compared to 2021 figure. Also, 210 farm produce of Bac Giang province were sold at these supermarkets with consumed quantity of over 2,000 tonnes and total value of 39 billion VND (1.66 million USD).

Paul Le informs about Central Retail Group’s lychee consuming plan.

According to Paul Le, CRG’s Vice President in charge of the group trade promotion, customers highly evaluated the quality of Bac Giang lychee. Though the fruits consumed via the CRG channels were not big, it became a trusted address for customers to buy Bac Giang lychees.

With its role, CRG continues selecting the special fruits of Bac Giang and bring them to the fruit festival to be held in My Tho city (Tien Giang province) as well as the supermarket chains in Thailand. Particularly on the upcoming Doan Ngo festival, CRG will sell lychees on gift set at the supermarkets.

The PPC Vice Chairman Phan The Tuan hoped CRG will continue accompanying the province to bring lychee in particular and signature farm produce of Bac Giang in general further to more customers as well as prioritizing to put the fruit on eye catching position to lure buyers.

Representatives of Department of Industry and Trade and Central Retail Group ink the memorandum of understanding.

Bac Giang province committed to supply lychees with best quality to meet the requirement of all markets and create all possible conditions for CRG to work, survey, negotiate and ink contract with businesses and cooperatives to buy local products. Local authority will introduce and connect the group to prestigious businesses, cooperatives and gardens with big scale.

At the event, representatives from DoIT and CRG inked memorandum of understanding about cooperative agreement on trade exchange, trade promotion for consuming lychee and other key agriculture products of Bac Giang province. Accordingly, CRG will consume about 300 tonnes of lychees and 2,000 tonnes of local farm produce.

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Over 300,000 USD invested in plastic basket production line to serve lychee season

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Luc Ngan well prepares condition to consume lychee

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