NEWLY harvested Laypin plums have been traded well in the Yangon fruit market.
These plums are called Laypin plums as they are produced from Laypin village located along the road to Mann Shwesettaw Pagoda in central Myanmar and the flavour is distinctly sweet. Laypin plums are available only for three months of the year.
“The recent best-seller fruit is Laypin plum which is produced from Shwesettaw Laypin village. It is its season and just begins now. The Laypin plum trade has been pretty good since the beginning of the season. It is one of the most marketable fruits in Yangon. It is different from other plums and quite sweet,” said Ma Thin Thin Hlaing, fruits retail and wholesale distributor from Hmawby Township.
Laypin plum is crunchy and the flavour is distinctively sweet from the stage of young fruit and sweeter when it ripens. Despite being sweet, it is hardly to be infected and can be harvested from November to March.
In 2023, Laypin plums were traded online in Pyay, and since then the fruit has become more popular in the local fruit market. — Thit Taw/ZS
