International Online Report (Reporter Zhou Yang): Longan, as a light-loving and heat-loving crop, is mainly grown in subtropical and tropical regions. The main growing areas of longan in Vietnam include the provinces of Hing An, Son La, and Hai Duong in northern Vietnam. According to statistics from Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in 2021, China will be Vietnam’s largest fruit export market, accounting for 64.7% of Vietnam’s total fruit exports. Among the nine exported fruits, longan and dried longan are included. Statistics from Vietnam’s Ministry of Industry and Trade show that Vietnam’s longan sales to the Chinese market in 2022 are expected to exceed 4,500 tons. With the steady increase in export volume, local fruit farmers have also embarked on the road of becoming rich in international cooperation.
Vietnamese longan has entered the mature picking season
Pei Chundan is a longan grower in , Hung An province in northern Vietnam. Every July to September is the season for local longan harvesting. When the reporter visited his orchard a few days ago, what he saw was A busy picking scene. Pei Chundan said that since 2000, he and dozens of nearby villagers began to grow longan. Chinese and Vietnamese people have the traditional habit of eating longan as a daily health care product, so the consumption of longan is very considerable. "Only speaking of dried longan exported to China, the dozen orchards in our vicinity together can export 500 to 700 tons of finished products to China each year, with an average annual output of 1.7 billion Vietnamese dong (about 500,000 yuan per orchard). RMB) income.”
Vietnamese fruit farmers are processing the freshly picked longans
The longan grown in Vietnam’s Hing An province has thick flesh, small cores and sweet fruit. While widely favored by domestic consumers in Vietnam, it is also sold to China, including China dozens of countries and regions. At present, there are more than 5,000 hectares of longan orchards in the entire Hinggan province. According to the report of the People's Committee of Hung An Province, Vietnam, the longan output in Hung An province is expected to reach 45,000 tons in 2022, of which about 35% will be processed into dried longan and mainly sold to the Chinese market.
Sorting and packing longan
Chen Wenci, deputy director of the Economic and Commercial Office of the People’s Committee of Xing’an City, Xing’an Province, Vietnam, said that China is a big market that cannot be ignored, and the local government is actively exploring to improve the quality of longan. Through offline and e-commerce promotion models, Make the local longan more competitive and famous in the international market. Tran also hopes to attract more foreign tourists to Vietnam to participate in eco-tourism projects in the future.
Chen Wenci said: "In the future, we will promote the planting of organic longan. We have organized various forms of planting technology training, so that local fruit farmers can further understand new technologies and expand the area of organic orchards. Promotion activities to promote Xing'an's longan, including China, Europe and other markets. We hope to further expand the Chinese market in the future, because the Chinese market is a market with great potential. In addition, we hope to target foreign tourists who come to Xing'an in the future. Launched the Longan 'Orchard Tour' project, which we have already conducted a trial operation in Vietnam. It brings new development opportunities to fruit farmers through eco-tourism, and the income of fruit farmers has also been further improved.”
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Longan Sweet Soup
By growing longan and expanding its export scale to China, the lives of Vietnamese fruit farmers such as Pei Chun Dan have been improved. They also look forward to more Vietnamese agricultural products entering the Chinese market in the future.
Pei Chundan said: "Our Xing'an agricultural products are very rich. For example, our Xing'an longan is affected by the local soil and climate, and the quality of the fruit is very high. In the future, we hope to carry out further cooperation with China, because China is the largest in the world. It is very important for the export of agricultural products in Vietnam.”
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