More than 100,000 VND per kg of early ripe lychee

Compared to last year, the price of litchi in the Central Highlands provinces increased by 30% to 90,000-110,000 VND per kilogram.

This week, many supermarkets, stores, and websites have started selling early-ripening lychees at high prices ranging from VND89,000 to over VND110,000 per kilogram. This is a 30% increase compared to last year.

Ms. Phuong Linh, a fruit seller on Thong Nhat Street (Go Vap), said she has been selling lychees for over a week now but has sold out every time they come in despite the high prices. "Compared to last year, the amount of goods coming in is less, so each time there is only about 20-30kg of grade 1 goods," Ms. Linh said.

According to Ms. Linh, the U Hong litchi has the advantage of plump, rosy fruit, and grade 1 fruit is as big as a chicken egg. This litchi is mainly imported from Dak Lak province, with a sweet taste mixed with a little sourness, not as sweet as the Northern litchi.

Selected pink litchi at a garden in Dak Lak. Photo: Khanh Duong

Selling hundreds of kilograms every week, Ms. Minh Anh, a fruit shop owner in District 1, said that this year's quantity of U Hong litchi is limited due to a bad harvest. In particular, grade 1 goods are even rarer because the output has decreased by 40-50% compared to last year. Therefore, the price at the beginning of the season this year has increased sharply. "In the first days of April, I sold 130,000 VND per kilogram, but now it has cooled down to 89,000 VND because the output is higher," Ms. Anh said.

Staff at the MM Mega supermarket chain in Thu Duc City said that lychees are soon sold in the Dak Lak province specialty section. Lychees are selected from gardens that grow according to VietGAP standards. Since the beginning of the season, lychees have been one of the best-selling products in the system.

MM Mega Market representative said that there is a promotion program from 109,000 VND to 89,000 VND per kg. The supermarket expects to sell several dozen tons of goods to farmers across the system by the end of the season.

Pink lychee garden is in harvest season at Dak Lak garden. Photo: Khanh Duong

According to sales establishments, the reason for the increase in the price of pink litchi this year is that output has decreased compared to the same period while demand has increased.

Khanh Duong, a gardener in Dak Lak, said his family has 20 lychee trees, but half of them only bear a few fruits, while the remaining trees bear about 100 kilograms each, down 40% from last year. "This year, the cost of care has increased, while the yield has decreased, so the gardener can only afford the care costs," said Khanh Duong.

Losing 60% of the output compared to last year, Lam Anh gardeners also said that this year they only break even. Currently, the price of U Hong lychee at the garden is 40,000-50,000 VND per kg.

According to the Dak Lak Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, this year's early-ripening lychee yield has decreased due to weather effects. To support growers, the department has also connected with modern retail systems with farmers to have stable output.

According to statistics, the whole province currently has about 2,570 hectares of lychee growing, of which the area for products is 1,358 hectares, with an output of about 10,000 tons. Currently, the whole province has 9 lychee growing areas with codes for export to China.

Thi Ha

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