In Vientiane, the capital of Laos, with the recent successful signing of the "Concession Agreement for the 5,000-hectare Ecological Agriculture Development Project in Sanansai County, Attapeu Province" with the Ministry of Planning and Investment of Laos , the last qualification of "Sunshine Jiarun (Laos) Ecological Agriculture Industrial Park" was approved, and the company's agricultural project of planting high-value tropical fruits such as durian in Laos was officially launched.
Sunshine Jiarun is an agricultural technology innovation technology company with mid-to-high-end tropical fruits as its development direction.According to General Manager Xie Fei, up to now, the first phase of the park has been fully started, the power construction and main road construction of the whole park have been basically completed, and the fruit planting work has also started.Among them, he is particularly optimistic about the market prospects of Laos durians.
"From the perspective of market demand and popularity, we will mainly choose to plant high-quality durians at the golden pillow level in the first phase. Since the planting period of durians is five to six years, it will enter the fruit-producing period, and this period can last at least. 40 years, or even a hundred years," Xie Fei added.
"At present, we are focusing on the development of the entire industry chain in the durian segment. Later, according to the needs of market development, we will appropriately increase the planting of other mid-to-high-end tropical fruits."
Xie Fei pointed out that the reason why the company invests in durian planting in Laos is first of all because The durian market has long been in a development trend of "boosting volume and price", and the market potential is self-evident.Secondly, Laos has many advantages compared with Thailand and Malaysia, the two major durian suppliers.
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