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Core Tip: According to Vietnamese customs statistics, in the first two months of 2025, Vietnam's durian exports amounted to only 52.7 million US dollars, a sharp drop of 69% year-on-year. Among them, exports to China plummeted by 83% to only 27 million US dollars. This data made Vietnamese durian's ranking in fruit exports to China surpassed by dragon fruit and bananas, while dragon fruit and banana exports to China in the same period were 93.8 million US dollars and 71.6 million US dollars respectively. The poor export has led to a sharp drop in local purchase prices. According to local media reports, the purchase price of durian has been halved to 13 yuan/kg, setting a record low in nearly ten years.

In Küre Village of Söğüt district of Bilecik, the so-called 'Early' cherries were hit by agricultural frost. Bilecik, which is the second province in Türkiye where cherries are grown the earliest, has no cherry production this year.

Core Tip: Sri Lanka's Daily Mirror reported on April 10 that according to a report by Verité Research, the cost of kevili, the traditional sweet platter for the Sinhalese and Tamil New Year, will increase by 7% in 2025 compared with 2024, more than double that of 2019.