On the side of Bac Giang province, there were Le Anh Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Phan The Tuan - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; representatives of leaders of Industry and Trade Department, Agriculture and Rural Development Department; leaders of People's Committee of 02 districts Luc Ngan, Tan Yen.

On the side of Central Retail Corporation, there was Mr. Thierry Cenivet - Vice Chairman of Central Retail Corporation in Vietnam; Ms. Pham Thi Thuy Linh - Director of Expansion Development - Northern Central Retail Corporation; Mr. Jose Mestre - Purchasing Manager of GO!/BigC supermarket chain; Mr. Le Manh Phong - CEO of GO!/BigC supermarket chain in the North and Ms. Duong Van Nga - Director of GO! Bac Giang.

Speaking at the meeting, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Anh Duong emphasized that Bac Giang has strengths in growing lychee, and farmers in the province have a lot of experience in growing litchi. Along with that, the province's policy always guides and supports farmers to shift lychee production to a method that approaches international standards for food safety, and in the next few years, gradually switch to organic production. At the same time, it invites enterprises to invest in deep processing. Currently, the province maintains about 28,000 hectares of litchi. In which, the area of lychee produced according to the VietGAP process certified by VietGAP reached more than 15 thousand hectares, with an output of about 113 thousand tons; The area of fabric produced according to the GlobalGAP process certified is about 1 thousand tons.

In recent years, Bac Giang has always been interested in promoting the application of scientific advances to the production process to ensure high quality for lychees. Up to now, Bac Giang's lychee quality can satisfy all domestic and foreign markets. The strength of Bac Giang lychee fruit is outstanding quality and large output. In the consumption structure, it is usually 50% for export, 50% for domestic consumption. The litchi areas for export are all signed with export enterprises, and are granted with planting area codes and packing facility codes to meet the standards of each market. The province has also been granted more than 200 area codes for lychee growing to meet export requirements to China, Japan, the US, Australia, some EU countries and other potential markets.

This year, the province's lychee output is expected to be large, the province's strategy is to promote domestic consumption through channels such as putting in a chain of commercial centers and retail networks; ecommerce; Consumption by traditional channels (taken to wholesale markets). In addition, the province also supplies lychee to big customers such as industrial parks in neighboring provinces, tourist areas.

Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Anh Duong thanked Central Retail Corporation for accompanying Bac Giang province over the years. At the same time, hoping that the cooperation between Bac Giang province and Central Retail Corporation will be maintained and expanded further, Central Retail Corporation buys and consumes more lychee for Bac Giang province.

The Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee proposed that Central Retail Corporation join hands with Bac Giang to promote lychee specialties in the supermarket system as well as outside the supermarket with the Corporation's relationships. Contracted litchi consumption for Bac Giang farmers with higher output. The province commits that the Bac Giang litchi brought to the supermarket is a quality lychee. In addition to lychee products, Bac Giang province also has many products with strengths, good quality, and room for long-term cooperation. He invited leaders of the Corporation to attend the lychee consumption events of the province.

Sharing at the meeting, Mr. Thierry Cenivet - Vice President of Central Retail Corporation in Vietnam highly appreciated the quality of Bac Giang lychee and shared about difficulties in consuming local agricultural products. At the same time, he wants to cooperate and develop more in the consumption of lychee and other agricultural products of the province, and commits to accompany the province to promote and promote the consumption of lychee, agricultural products and some other agricultural products and other OCOP products.

This year, the Corporation will increase the amount of lychee purchase and consumption in the country and gradually expand consumption in Thailand. In 2022, Central Retail Vietnam is expected to consume 1,000 tons of lychee and about 100 tons of key agricultural products, typical of Bac Giang province.

The Department of Industry and Trade and Central Retail Corporation signed a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in promoting lychee consumption in 2022 at the supermarket system of Central Retail Vietnam./.