Fruits at Vinh wholesale market are unsold, traders are heartbroken and throw them away

Tien Dong• February 20, 2021 08:59

(Baonghean.vn) - As the largest fruit wholesale center in Nghe An, in the days after Tet, Vinh wholesale market witnessed an unprecedented slump. Fruits were not sold in time and were damaged and had to be dumped everywhere.

In the first days of the new year, the fruit display area at Vinh wholesale market was not as busy as before. Partly because of the epidemic.Covid-19, partly because of economic difficulties, purchasing power has decreased significantly. This has caused many difficulties for businesses, even causing losses right at the beginning of the year. Photo: TD

The wholesale market area has about 50 fruit stalls. Although it is the right time for the opening ceremony and preparation for the full moon of January, the amount of wholesale fruit through the wholesale market has decreased significantly. According to business households, if in the past, every day there were hundreds of trucks carrying hundreds of tons of fruit circulating through this market to transport to Ha Tinh, Quang Binh and other localities in Nghe An, but now, due to the epidemic, fruits from many localities cannot return, so it is no longer busy. Photo: TD

Ms. Phan Thi Hang, a business owner at Vinh wholesale market, said that this year, goods are sluggish, although prices have dropped to the floor, but consumption is still low. This not only causes difficulties for business owners but also for farmers. Photo: TD

As the leading fruit transit center of the whole province, however, businesses are currently having to make do with small orders, sending each fruit box to the districts instead of each truck as before. Photo: TD

With the current situation, each business household can only sell 3-5 quintals of fruit per day. After deducting the cost of hiring unloading workers, paying for business premises... which is up to more than 10 million VND/month, no one makes a profit. Photo: TD

Many boxes of oranges and bags of apples, after being unloaded from the truck, should have been transported immediately, but due to lack of buyers, they had to be piled up at the stalls. In the hot weather, the fruits quickly rotted, causing considerable damage. Photo: TD

Ms. Tuyet, a business owner here, shared that before she could sell a whole cart of goods every day, but now she can only sell a few hundred kilograms. Oranges and apples are not products that can be kept for a long time, but because no one is buying them, they cannot be sold. Photo: TD

The sluggish fruit business at the wholesale market has also had a significant impact on the workers who work as transporters here. Mr. Khanh, who specializes in pulling a cart to transport goods, said: Before, he had a lot of work every day, from night to morning he was always busy transporting goods to Vinh Market Bus Station to send to the transport companies. But now, he only makes a few trips a day, and all he does is combine goods for many households to send at once. Photo: TD