Vietnam Exports Over 7 Tonnes of Litchi to Australia
The General Department of Vietnam Customs said three containers carrying 3.4 tonnes of litchi, exported by Red Dragon Company, docked in Melbourne on June 13, a batch with 540 kg of the sweet fruit, owned by Fsoti Company, arrived in Sydney on June 16, and a pilot batch with 3.4 tonnes of litchi of this company also reached Australia.
After 12 years of negotiations, Vietnam’s litchi has finally exported to the Australian market. If these test shipments were optimistic, more litchi will be exported to Australia.
Upon the shipment of next pilot batch arriving in Melbourne, the Vietnam Trade Office in Australia will coordinate with the Vietnam Business Association in Australia to organise the "Vietnam Litchi Day in Australia" to introduce the famous fruit of Vietnam to Australia and call overuses Vietnamese people to buy the fruit. The Vietnam Trade Office has also designed and printed leaflets, brochures and guidebooks on litchi processing based on Australian tastes and broadcast short films about litchi on some media channels.
As the northern region has no litchi irradiation facility to date, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat and Minister of Science and Technology Nguyen Quan have worked to decide on the upgrading investment for Cau Dien Radiation Scanning Centre (Tu Liem district, Hanoi). The centre is now administered by the Institute of National Atomic Energy under the Ministry of Science and Technology. Currently, the centre is being upgraded, with old equipment replaced and US and Australia-standard cold storage facilities built. The centre is expected to start radiating litchi next year.
Hien Le
Vietnamese
