Tainan: 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 in the southern Taiwanese metropolis to discuss plans to expand imports of the city's agricultural products to Japan.

According to Focus Taiwan, 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 noted 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.

The city government's Agriculture Bureau reported that Queen's Isetan sold Irwin mangoes produced by the Yujing United Prosperity Cooperative across its stores in Japan last year.