As the Lunar New Year (Tet) approaches, cherry prices have surged, with imported varieties from New Zealand and Australia ...

Cherries were once considered a luxury item in China, but a flood of cheap Chilean imports has tanked prices ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday Lunar New Year, arguably China's biggest annual ...

Cherries were once seen as a luxury item in China, with prices often above 100 yuan (US$13.75) per 500 grams (17.64 ounces), but that has changed dramatically in recent months after a record ...

DALIAN, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Dalian Port in northeast China has opened a direct shipping route to import cherries from Chile. The ship GSL Tinos, loaded with 616 TEUs of Chilean cherries, docked on ...

Why are these ruby-red stone fruits so ruinously expensive? The high cost of cherries is tied to a cascade of agricultural, environmental, and economic factors.

"The key to cherries is freshness. I’ve sourced the newest stock for my customers, but prices are higher," Hanh said, noting that a 2-kg box of cherries sized 30-32 mm costs around VND1.5-1.6 million.

China's total fruit planting area grew to more than 12.8 million hectares in 2021, with the area of traditional fruits like apples and pears decreasing while that of lesser-known fruits, including ...

General Director of Saigon Co.op Nguyen Anh Duc said that recently, Co.opmart and Co.opXtra supermarkets across the country, in turn, put on shelves a large number of cherries imported directly ...

In the spring of 2024, Sukhdeep Brar, a second-generation stone-fruit grower in Summerland, couldn’t even look at his cherry trees. After a deep winter freeze decimated his crops, the branches ...