Customers line up to buy white lychee for 90,000 VND/kg, summer-autumn rice prices remain high

The white egg lychee in Thanh Ha (Hai Duong) is sold at the garden price of 90,000 VND/kg and is still in high demand. Supermarkets and clean fruit stores are having to "line up" to buy it.

White eggplant is the most expensive lychee. Last year, one sao of white eggplant brought in about 29 million VND. That means 1 hectare brings in about 800 million VND.

White egg lychee.

In the market, some stores are selling white eggplant lychee at prices ranging from 145,000-180,000 VND/kg depending on the type. Meanwhile, the pink eggplant lychee costs about 80,000-120,000 VND/kg.

The early lychee tea harvest begins in the second half of May, while the main lychee tea harvest begins in the second half of June this year. In addition to white lychee, many Vietnamese gardeners also grow gai lychee, pink lychee, hybrid lychee and main-season lychee.

Rice prices today, May 21, in the Mekong Delta region remained stable compared to yesterday. Accordingly, at An Giang warehouse, An Giang sticky rice prices are being purchased by traders at 8,200 - 8,400 VND/kg; OM 5451 rice at 6,400 - 6,500 VND/kg; Nang Hoa 8 rice at 6,600 - 6,800 VND/kg; Dai Thom 8 rice prices are being purchased by traders at 6,800 - 7,000 VND/kg; OM 18 fluctuates around 6,600 - 6,800 VND; IR 504 rice is being purchased by traders at 6,200 - 6,400 VND/kg; Japanese rice at 7,800 - 8,000 VND/kg; Long An dry sticky rice is 8,600 - 8,800 VND/kg, and dry IR 504 rice remains at 6,500 VND/kg.

Farmers in Dien Thai commune (Dien Chau) harvest spring rice. Photo: Phu Huong

Regarding rice, the price of raw rice and finished rice products remained stable. Specifically, the price of raw rice stood at 9,800 VND/kg; finished rice was 11,100 VND/kg.

Regarding by-products, the price of IR 504 rice bran is stable at 9,400 VND/kg, while dry bran fluctuates around 7,450 - 7,550 VND/kg.

At the retail market, rice prices remained stable after the adjustment session. Accordingly, regular rice is 11,000 - 12,000 VND/kg; Jasmine fragrant rice is 14,000 - 15,000 VND/kg; Soc regular rice is 15,000 VND/kg; glutinous rice is 16,000 - 18,000 VND/kg; Nang Nhen rice is 22,000 VND/kg; Common white rice is 14,500 VND/kg; Nang Hoa is 18,500 VND/kg; Soc Thai is 18,000 VND/kg; Taiwanese fragrant rice is 20,000 VND/kg; Japanese rice is 22,000 VND/kg; Bran is 7,500 - 8,000 VND/kg; Long grain Thai fragrant rice remains at 18,000 - 19,000 VND/kg and jasmine rice at 19,000 VND/kg.

According to traders, today the amount of raw rice imported is low, the price of all types of rice is stable. The price of summer-autumn rice is relatively stable, and new rice transactions are steady.

Over the past week, rice prices have been continuously adjusted upwards by 50 VND/kg for raw rice and 50-200 VND/kg for paddy.