Hanoi, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) -- In Vietnam in December, the sun shines on durian orchards in Dak Lak province, and young durian fruits hang on the branches. Vietnamese fruit farmer Pham Van Thong came to his orchard early in the morning to take care of the fruit trees. This is a Xi he has cultivated day after day in the 15 years of growing durian.
Unlike in the past, the durian on the branches now has a new place to go when it matures. In September last year, the first batch of Vietnamese durians was allowed to enter China. Since then, large quantities of fresh durian have entered the Chinese market from southern Vietnam.
On September 15, at a durian processing factory in Vietnam's Dak Lak province, workers were labeling durians that were about to be exported to China. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Hu Jiali).
Pham Van Thong manages two durian orchards with a total area of 150,000 square meters. So far, dozens of tons of durian have been exported to China from these two orchards. He told Xinhua News Agency that after the durian was exported to China, "it brought considerable income to our family".
Chinese consumers' preference for Vietnamese durians drives Vietnam's high-quality durian*** Pham Van Thong said that before exporting to China, the average price of wholesale durian in Vietnam was 40,000 to 50,000 VND per kilogram (about 2.).VND 40,000); After the product is exported to China, it rises to 70,000 to 750,000 VND, and even as high as 80,000 to 90,000 VND in peak season.
Statistics from the Vietnam Fruit and Vegetable Association show that Vietnam's durian exports in 2022 will be about 4$200 million. In the first 10 months of this year, Vietnam's durian exports have reached a record high of nearly US$2.1 billion, and China is Vietnam's largest consumer market for durian, with exports to China reaching nearly US$1.9 billion.
The hot market prospect has attracted many Chinese companies to look for partners in Vietnam, and Jiangxi Durian ** Company, a fruit merchant who participated in the first batch of Vietnamese durian exports to China in September last year, is one of them.
In September this year, during the peak harvest period, Zhuang Leihong, the person in charge of the company, took reporters through the durian orchard. "We start planning three months before the harvest and contract orchards to farmers through local agricultural cooperatives to fertilize and care for them. During the harvest season, workers go to the orchard in the morning to cut the fruit, pick it in the afternoon, and transport it to the processing plant in the evening. ”
On September 15, at a durian processing factory in Vietnam's Dak Lak province, a worker weighed durians. (Xinhua News Agency, photo by Fan Tingde).
Durian transfer trucks drove out of the orchard and transported to a nearby processing plant. Zhuang Leihong stood at the door of his company's factory, pointed to the factories on both sides of the road and said: "Our factory was built on a vacant land, and there were not many factories here when I first came. ”
Late at night, the durian processing plant is still brightly lit. Picking, cleaning, weighing, drying, sorting, packing, stewing, loading...In order to "grab fresh" cross-border delivery to consumers, workers worked day and night to complete a complete set of processes before the durian was exported to China at their respective posts.
The company's technical director, Nguyen Manh Ta, is Vietnamese. For more than a year, he has been on the front line of production and sales, handling hot orders. "More and more Vietnamese high-quality agricultural products are on the table of Chinese consumers, and the 'fruit basket' of Vietnam and China is becoming more and more abundant. ”
For Wang Congkun, the person in charge of Guangxi Oceanwide International, it has become an important part of daily work to come to Vietnam's processing plant every once in a while to accept durian. "We are mainly engaged in cold chain transportation in Southeast Asia, and last year we began to join the durian brand operation in Vietnam, starting from the production end, we purchased more than 40 freezers in Vietnam, formed a fleet of durians, and reached the market in 4 to 5 days. ”
At the end of the loading, Wang Congkun watched the cold chain logistics vehicles loaded with fresh durian go north to the Sino-Vietnamese border, and continue to march to the Chinese market through the Vietnam Friendship International Port.
At present, the durian harvest season in Dale Lak Province has come to an end, and Pham Van Thong is still not idle, busy taking care of the young fruits every day, preparing for the next harvest period. He believes that the harvest in the coming year will be even more gratifying.