Lychee – Madagascar
Lychee is a truly delicious fragrant fruit.
It is a tropical and subtropical fruit tree native to the Guangdong and Fujian provinces of China, and now cultivated in many parts of the world. The fresh fruit has a "delicate, whitish pulp" with a floral smell and a fragrant, sweet flavor. Since this perfume-like flavor is lost in the process of canning, the fruit is usually eaten fresh.
Lychees are extensively grown in China, India, Thailand, Vietnam and the rest of tropical Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and more recently in South Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, Queensland, California, Hawaii, and Florida.
It is eaten as fresh fruit.
Lychees are processed into pulp and juice.
Lychee cultivation and harvesting are labor intensive.
Madagascar’s lychee pricing is very competitive.
We will diversify into lychee juice & lychee pulp production.
Creator Universal cooperates with lychee fruit growers in Madagascar. The cooperation is supported by the Madagascar Government. Creator Universal has made commitments to increase the export of lychee fruit from Madagascar, to develop profitable businesses processing lychee fruit, to provide revenue and to provide employment to the people of Madagascar.
Our advantage: We provide finance / no interest loans to growers to help them during the year.
Season: November-December. This is the period for collection and export. Generally, the lychee campaign starts from the second half of November and it will last three weeks to one month.
Locations: North-East- East- South South East. These Regions all produce lychees, but the operations of collection are more focused on the East (150 km around the Toamasina, the Port). The Lychees in the other Regions are eaten by the local population and big quantities are wasted.
Destinations for export: France, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands.
Quantity for export: Every year, the average is 15,000 Tons to 20,000 Tons.
Annual production: Between 100,000 T to 120,000 Tons but owing to the lack of infrastructure and market, the exports are only 20,000 Tons.