Bigger, sweeter and cheaper mandarin oranges for CNY

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Sweeter yet easier on the pockets, this year's mandarin oranges (lokam) are going to put a big smile on the faces of consumers.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Sweeter yet easier on the pockets, this year's Mandarin oranges or Lokum are going to put

00:08 a big smile on the faces of consumers.

00:11 The lower prices mean everyone can have a share of the bumper crop and delight in having

00:16 the lunar new year must-have, which is also loved for its Chinese name, "gam", that

00:22 rhymes with the word for gold.

00:24 Sunshine Wholesale Mart, Sendrayan Bharat director Yi Gangming said, "Favorable weather in China

00:30 has led to a 20 per cent increase in yield and a drop in prices."

00:36 He said the fruits are even larger this year, reaching a peak size of 70 to 75 millimetres

00:42 in diameter for the medium sizes and 75 to 80 millimetres for the large ones.

00:49 Yi, who received his first shipment of over 6,000 boxes of mandarins, said the company

00:55 would receive a total of 15.

00:58 Because of the harvest, we consider the total production to have increased by 20 per cent.

01:07 And the pecking size also, M size and L size, consists of 60 per cent of the production.

01:16 He added that across all sizes, there are noticeable price drops, with the biggest observed

01:21 in XL mandarins declining by 37 per cent.

01:26 The price of L size mandarins is cheaper by 25 per cent, while M size has gone down by

01:33 17 per cent.

01:34 The smallest decrease is the S size at only 1 per cent lower.

01:40 Besides locum, Yi said they also offer other mandarin orange varieties.

01:44 "Besides, we also import other types of mandarin oranges like red beauty, wokkan,

01:54 papakan and satangji.

01:57 And this field has very high demand in China.

02:05 And the quality is also considered the best of mandarin oranges in China.

02:13 And although the prices are higher than local mandarin oranges."

02:20 Malaysia, Yi said, is the second largest importer of oranges in Southeast Asia, behind Indonesia

02:27 and ahead of Singapore.

02:29 "The price of mandarin oranges are cheaper and the shipment is also available.

02:38 So no more MCO.

02:40 More consumers can buy as a gift for their friends and relatives."

02:45 "Oh yeah!"

02:50 "Thank you."

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