Strict export protocols overcome to put north Queensland lychees on US dinner tables

Updated March 9 2017 - 2:46pm, first published 2:25pm
Sweet success: The quality and taste of exported Australian lychees were well received by US consumers when the first-ever shipment from Australia took place.
Sweet success: The quality and taste of exported Australian lychees were well received by US consumers when the first-ever shipment from Australia took place.

A lychee grower from Mareeba has become the first farmer in Australia to successfully send a commercial shipment of lychees to the United States.

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