Efforts after 5 years of negotiation
After 5 years of negotiation efforts, Vietnamese lychee was officially allowed to be exported to Japan. Accordingly, at the end of 2019, Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) sent a letter to the Plant Protection Department (Plant Protection Department – Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) officially announcing the opening for Vietnamese lychee to be exported directly. to Japan with regulations on quarantine of imported plants for Vietnamese lychee.
To achieve this result, the Plant Protection Department has cooperated with localities to implement many strict measures to ensure the thorough eradication of Japanese plant quarantine objects capable of following Vietnamese lychee. Male.
Phytosanitary requirements for Vietnamese lychee exported to Japan include: The lychee must be grown in gardens that are inspected, supervised and granted by the Plant Protection Department by Plant Protection Department, meeting the regulations. on plant quarantine and food safety in Japan.
Lot of lychee exported must be packed and treated with fumigation with Methyl Bromide at facilities recognized by Plant Protection Department and MAFF with the minimum dosage of 32g / m3 for 2 hours under the supervision of the staff. Plant quarantine ministries, Vietnam and Japan. The lots of lychee exported must be accompanied by a plant quarantine certificate issued by the Plant Protection Department.
Having many years of fabric production experience to export to fastidious markets such as the US and Australia, Bac Giang farmers are also very confident to meet the requirements of the Japanese market. According to Mr. Duong Van Thai – Chairman of Bac Giang People's Committee, up to now, there have been 19 codes of litchi growing area granted to export to Japan market, with an area of 103ha belonging to communes: Hong Giang , Nam Duong, Tan Son, Quy Son, Giap Son and Ho Dap of Luc Ngan district and Phuc Hoa commune of Tan Yen district. “The preparation of exporting lychee to Japan has been completed,” – Thai said.
Mr. Cao Van Hoan – Vice Chairman of Luc Ngan District People's Committee added, recently, Japanese plant quarantine agency granted more planting area codes for 27ha of lychee district to export to this market. Thus, up to this point, Luc Ngan district has 77ha lychee granted area code for export to Japan. Earlier, in Luc Ngan, there were also 218ha of lychee granted with a growing area code for export to the US market.
Negotiating for Japan to authorize Vietnam to inspect
When all conditions to bring lychee to Japan have been prepared by the local authorities, localities and farmers, the area of ripe lychee is soon granted the planting code to Japan is about to be harvested. However, the Covid-19 epidemic is making it difficult for Japanese experts to test the lychee export processing system.
Specifically, in recent documents sent to Hai Duong Department of Industry and Trade and Bac Giang Department of Industry and Trade, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said that the Ministry of Industry and Trade received the Official Letter No. 02 / shouan / 333 dated April 20, 2020 of the Ministry of Agriculture. , Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (MAFF) announced that it is impossible to send experts from Plant Protection Department of Japan to Vietnam to inspect and recognize the disinfection treatment system of fresh lychee exported from Vietnam due to the impact of Covid-19 translation.
In order to overcome these difficulties, the leader of the Ministry of Industry and Trade has sent a written request to the Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan to work with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan to persuade the Japanese side to consider solutions. Other instead of having to send experts to Vietnam to inspect disinfection facilities is temporarily authorizing independent inspection organizations in Vietnam to do this in the short term or in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam. perform remote inspection measures.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade will continue to work closely with relevant agencies and localities of both countries to find solutions to remove difficulties for Vietnam's fresh litchi exports to Japan.
It is known that the Plant Protection Department (MARD) is in the process of negotiating for the Japanese side to authorize Vietnam to inspect sterilization facilities, now everything is proceeding normally, the plan to put lychee to Japan in 2020 at present, nothing has changed.
The representative of Plant Protection Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) said that the Department is trying to talk with the representative of MAFF and work with Japanese Trade Counselor in Vietnam to find the most feasible solution to bring Thieu litchi to Japan. Good copy.
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