Festival-goers will have a chance to take part in lychee harvesting, bunch-tying, stem-cutting, chilling fruit in ice-water tanks, and packing into foam boxes in accordance with export-standard procedures.

Outstanding-quality lychees, meeting strict technical standards, from Thanh Ha district in the northern province of Hai Duong arrived in Paris and appeared on shelves of a supermarket in Paris after only five hours of import.

The northern province of Bac Giang has exported more than 24,000 tonnes of lychees to many markets with fastidious requirements from the outset of this year, according to the provincial Department of Industry and Trade.

Two tonnes of fresh Vietnamese lychees, meeting GlobalGAP standards, arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on May 28, marking the first shipment of this year's crop.

In just a few days’ time, the early-ripening hybrid lychee hub of Hung Yen province will enter into its harvest season. Indeed, the lush, bountiful lychee orchards in Phu Cu district have been gradually turning red. Local farmers are diligently completing the final stages of preparations to supply the market with the first ripe, sweet, and succulent lychees.

The first batch of Hai Duong province’s Thanh Ha lychees exported to Australia by air this year has officially appeared on Australian supermarket shelves.

Thailand's retail corporation Central Retail in Vietnam plans to put on shelves about 1,000 tonnes of lychee this year, with first batches of the fruit from Bac Giang province’s Luc Ngan district transported to its supermarkets after a ceremony on May 25.

A two-tonne batch of lychees imported for the first time from Vietnam were sent to supermarkets in the UK on June 30.

“Thieu” lychees from Vietnam have hit the shelves of Carrefour Tongre supermarkets in Brussels, Belgium, since June 23 thanks to efforts of the Vinamex company and partners in bringing the Vietnamese specialty fruit to Europe to utilise the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA).

Lychees grown in Tan Yen district, the northern province of Bac Giang have made their way to stores in Japan this year.

Agricultural specialties of some provinces are being sold on the e-commerce platform Sendo, marking the first time cooperatives and farmers have directly put their produce on sale in the digital environment.

A Vietnamese cuisine festival was hosted by the Association of Vietnamese People in Paris on June 19. It was the first Vietnamese cuisine festival held outdoor in Paris, shortly after local authorities eased COVID-19-induced restrictions.

As the latest outbreak of COVID-19 continues to make its presence felt in Bac Giang province, local lychee growers are focusing on protecting their crop. A host of measures have been adopted to ensure their lychees are safe from the disease.

The engagement of Vietnamese e-commerce platforms in the consumption of farm produce, particularly lychees, is a sustainable move not only amid the COVID-19 pandemic but also for the future.

The early-ripening “u hong” lychees from Thanh Ha district, the northern province of Hai Duong – a lychee farming hub of Vietnam, hit the shelves of Singaporean supermarkets on June 3.

Lychees grown in the northern province of Bac Giang, which is being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, will be put up for sale on major e-commerce platforms in the next three and four days.

A ceremony marking the exportation of the first batch of lychees from the 2021 crop to Japan was held on May 26 in Tan Yen district, Bac Giang province. Of particular note, all quarantine procedures for the batch were monitored and completed in line with international protocols, as authorised by Japan.

More than 8 tonnes of lychees were sold out after 8 hours available online via MoMo e-wallet, said the Saigon Union of Trading Co-operatives (Saigon Co.op) on June 10.

Several large supermarket chains have pledged to support the consumption of lychees as the fruit enters the harvest season in the northern provinces of Bac Giang and Hai Duong, the two biggest growers of the fruit in the country.

Japanese experts are set to arrive in Vietnam on June 3 to examine and supervise phytosanitary measures for the lychees destined for the Northeast Asian market, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).