Millions of dongs for a red-fleshed jackfruit in Vietnam

While Thai jackfruit in the Mekong Delta continuously dropped in price to only a few thousand dong per kilogram, there appeared red-fleshed jackfruit on the market with a price 5-6 times higher and still "sold out". For more than a week now, Mr. Hoang, the owner of a fruit shop in Dong Nai, has been selling Indo red jackfruit for 120,000 VND per kg (whole fruit) and 180,000 VND per kg for splits. This retail price is 5 times higher than that of Thai jackfruit. "This variety in previous years was mostly imported with a price of up to 300,000 VND per kilogram, but now they are grown a lot in Vietnam, so it has cooled down. However, the quantity sold to the market is not much," said Mr. Hoang. said he only collects about 4-5 fruits a week to sell to customers. According to Mr. Hoang, each jackfruit weighs 8-15kg. With the above price, the average price of each fruit is 1-1.2 million. Selling red-fleshed jackfruit since early April, Ms. Hang, a fruit shop in Hanoi, commented that this ...