With the arrival of the plum rainy season, the harvest has started in Lishui, Zhejiang. It is reported that the Lishui Customs recently opened a "green fresh-keeping path” to handle customs clearance procedures for a shipment of Dongkui waxberries. It was the first shipment exported from the province this year, totaling 28 cartons of 266 kilos.
This shipment was harvested from the orchard that morning. After undergoing procedures including sorting, packaging, sealing, and pre-cooling, the shipment was declared to the customs for export. According to Xia Xiaoqing, the general manager of Qingtian Zhongzhi Products Trading Co., Ltd., the owner of this shipment, "Our products will be shipped to Shanghai tonight and then exported by an early-morning flight tomorrow, before being marketed in supermarkets overseas the next day. The berries are expensive due to the scarcity - each berry is marketed for 10 yuan."
With the export of this shipment, this year's export season kicked off in Qingtian. According to CCTV Finance, a grower said that waxberry production and sales are booming this year. An average tree is set to produce more than 50 kilos, but the market is still in short supply. A daily harvest of 5,000 kilos is still not enough to satisfy the market appetite, and he had to hire 30 more workers than last year. His berries have been exported to Singapore, Spain, the United States, and other countries since 2019, and he has received more export orders this year.
Zhu Weihao, Section Chief of the Fourth Inspection Section of Lishui Customs, a branch of Hangzhou Customs, said that since the first shipment this year was shipped on June 1st, a total of about 16.5 tons have been exported from Qingtian. From the beginning of this year, there has been more than 700 mu of orchards newly registered at the customs. It is expected that the production will increase by more than 600 tons each year.
Source: Daily Economic News
