Japanese supermarket Queen's Isetan to again sell Tainan mangoes

Taipei, June 18 (CNA) Japanese supermarket Queen's Isetan will once again sell top-grade mangoes from Tainan in July, the Tainan City Government said in a news release Wednesday.

The announcement came after the retailer's president, Ryuichi Amemiya, met with Tainan Mayor Huang Wei-che (黃偉哲) in the southern Taiwanese metropolis to discuss plans to expand imports of the city's agricultural products to Japan.

Huang said red dragon fruit and Irwin mangoes exported to Japan last year were very well received, and expressed hope that more agricultural goods from Tainan would be added to the shelves at Queen's Isetan supermarket.

Amemiya said that many agricultural goods from Tainan have already caught the attention of the company, which plans to carry top-grade mangoes from Tainan again on a trial basis in July, as a step toward deeper cooperation.

He welcomed further recommendations of quality products from Tainan.

According to the city government's Agriculture Bureau, Queen's Isetan sold Irwin mangoes produced by the Yujing United Prosperity Cooperative (玉井聯興合作社) across its stores in Japan last year.