Start exporting fabrics early

Determining that China is still the largest export market of lychee, localities with large areas of cloth have proactively opened their markets early and captured new regulations in trade when exporting. .

Bac Giang province organized a conference to promote the consumption of lychee in the third season in Bang Tuong, China and updated the new regulations on packaging and traceability of products on Vietnam’s agricultural products when export.

At the request of China, to export official goods, from 5/2019, compulsory on some fruits, including lychee when imported into the market, the country must have packaging, label and source of access. origin. For litchi fruit, from the year of 2019, China required to pack in a foam container with a stamped seal.

The area of thieu litchi growing in Bac Giang is nearly 28.5 thousand ha, of which more than 14 thousand ha are produced under VietGAP and GlobalGap process, the output of 2019 crop is estimated at 150 thousand tons. Time to harvest lychee early from 25/5; The main fabric is from June 5 to July 5, 2019.

Mr. Tran Quang Tan, Director of Bac Giang Department of Industry and Trade, said that along with the domestic market, export promotion to China has been implemented early by the locality because China is the main export market of the country. lychee.

“As the Chinese market raises technical standards and quality of lychee imports, this is an opportunity for people to change the method towards standards and higher quality for integration and towards difficult markets. count ", Mr. Tan said.

Wrong export promotion conference in Bang Tuong, Bac Giang province has been registered and accepted by the Chinese authorities 149 areas of planting with an area of over 16,000 ha (accounting for about 60% of the province’s total output) and 86 The establishment of exporting lychee to this market creates conditions for foreign businesses and traders to purchase lychee according to the official commercial contract, increasing the value of agricultural products through official export.

According to Thang Thanh Vy, the President of Bang Tuong International Fruit as‌sociation proposed that the Vietnamese side pay attention to complying with the requirements and standards set by China on food safety and hygiene, inspection, label, specific standards of litchi ...

“China has more than 1.3 billion people, the largest market in the world. With fresh litchi fruit which has been granted the planting area code, it only needs to conform to Chinese customs inspection conditions and well deal with post-harvest preservation, more than 100 members of the Trade Union will support customs clearance. taking deep into inland consumption ”, Mr. Thang Thanh Vy affirmed.

Important export markets

Information from the Asia-Africa Market Department (Ministry of Industry and Trade), China has the largest annual area of fruit and litchi production in the world. Fabrics are grown in provinces in the southern part of the Changjiang River, such as Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan and some other provinces with lower yields such as Sichuan, Guizhou and Yunnan.

The crop harvest in China usually starts from mid-February to the end of July every year, sooner and longer than the fabric harvest of Vietnam due to the soil conditions, climate and richer varieties.

In 2018, China ’s fabric area is about 542,000 hectares with output of about 2.3 million tons, a record high in recent years. However, China still imports fresh litchi from other markets every year, mostly from Vietnam.

Due to a warm winter, dryness and little rain, the flowering ability of litchi in 2019 in localities with large areas of planting and production reached a low rate, leading to the production of litchi in the Central Vietnam China reduced (fabric output in Guangdong - local accounts for about 50% of total Chinese fabric output decreased by about 40% compared to 2018).

According to recent data from the Agricultural Product Data Warehouse, the Ministry of Commerce of China, wholesale cloth prices (May 27, 2019) in some local markets of China from 12 Yuan (NDT) / kg to 31 yuan / kg. In particular, the price of cloth in Zhejiang was about 12 yuan / kg; Guangdong, Jiangsu and Beijing respectively 17 yuan / kg, 20 yuan / kg and 25 yuan / kg; Anhui province recorded the highest price of the day, reaching 31 yuan / kg (01 yuan is equivalent to about 3,380 VND).

In the previous years, at the end of the season (from mid-June to the end of July), the domestic market price of Chinese cloths will often decrease compared to the previous periods because the quality of the last litchi fruit is not equal. However, with the actual price and output volume in 2019, the average price of litchi in China’s domestic market is expected to be higher than in 2018.

According to the General Department of Customs, in the 2018 crop year, Vietnamese enterprises exported more than 92,000 tons of fabric, worth more than 40.8 million USD, an increase of 172% in volume and a strong increase of 126% in value compared to 2017 crop.

In particular, the amount of fabric exports in the 2018 crop year to China reached more than 83,500 tons, worth more than 33.9 million USD, a strong increase of 151% in volume and 91% in value compared to the 2017 crop year. Export to China has accounted for 90.7% of total fabric exports of the country in this crop year.

The report of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development shows that China is not only the market that brings the largest export turnover of vegetables and fruits of Vietnam, but also accounts for an increasing market share in the export structure of vegetable and fruit industry.

If in 2013, China accounted for 28% of Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable export market share, then in 2014 it reached 30%. By 2015, China has jumped to become a market that accounts for 65% of Vietnam’s fruit and vegetable export market share, up to 2016-2017, accounting for 70.8% and 75.7% of Vietnam vegetable and fruit export market share respectively. .

By the end of 2018, export of fruits to China brought about USD 2.78 billion in Vietnam, an increase of 5.03% compared to 2017.

In recent years, the export turnover of Vietnamese vegetables and fruits to the Chinese market has also been continuously recorded with double-digit growth and this has contributed to helping this industry achieve an average growth rate of over 32 % in the period from 2011-2017.