[Photo] Lychee harvest season in the Central Highlands

Currently, farmers in Dak Lak as well as the Central Highlands provinces are entering the lychee harvest season. This year's lychee harvest is good and the price is good, so farmers are very excited.

Ms. Le Thi Hai in village 10, Ea Sar commune, Ea Kar district, Dak Lak province is happy because this year lychee has a good harvest and good price.

Lychee trees have been planted by farmers in the Central Highlands in general and Dak Lak province in particular for more than 20 years now, and with the advantage of ripening earlier than lychees in the Northern provinces and good quality, lychees in the Central Highlands are sold at high prices. With the economic value brought by lychees being quite high, second only to durian trees, in recent years, farmers in Dak Lak province have focused on developing lychees in the direction of commodity production. Up to now, the area of ​​lychees in Dak Lak province has expanded to about 2,500 hectares, of which Ea Kar district has the largest area with about 1,000 hectares, of which about 600 hectares are harvested with this year's output reaching about 9,000 tons. Below are pictures of the lychee harvest season in Ea Kar district, the locality with the largest lychee growing area in Dak Lak province as well as the Central Highlands provinces.

In recent years, many farmers in Ea Kar district, Dak Lak province have switched from growing pepper and other short-term crops to growing lychee, bringing high economic efficiency.

People in Ea Kar district enter lychee harvest in 2023.

Thanks to growing lychee, many families in Ea Kar district, Dak Lak province earn hundreds of millions, even billions of dong each year.

Although lychee ripens about 1 month earlier than lychee in the northern provinces, according to traders from the North who come to buy, the quality of lychee in Dak Lak as well as the Central Highlands provinces is not inferior to that of lychee in the North.

With an average yield of about 15 tons/ha, and with the current price of 30,000 VND/kg, farmers can earn 450 million VND per hectare of lychee.

Farmers are happy because this year's lychee crop is good and the price is good.

Farmers are careful with every little detail in harvesting to ensure the quality of lychees for export.

Currently, lychee prices are high, but as farmers harvest, traders come to the garden to buy.

Lychee in Dak Lak is considered by traders to be large and of good quality.

Traders drive trucks into the garden to buy lychees for farmers.

A facility for purchasing and packaging lychees in Ea Sar commune, Ea Kar district for export to China.

With the economic value brought by lychee trees being quite high, second only to durian trees, in recent years, farmers in Dak Lak province have focused on developing lychee trees in the direction of commodity production.

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