The Prime Ministers of Vietnam and Laos cut the ribbon to inaugurate the first phase of a fresh milk factory, one of the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia, in central Nghe An province on July 9.
The Prime Ministers of Vietnamand Laos cut the ribbon to inaugurate the first phase of a fresh milkfactory, one of the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia, in centralNghe An province on July 9.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung andhis Lao counterpart Thongsing Thammavong were in Nghe An to co-chaired aceremony on July 9 marking the completion of a project on increasingand upgrading border markers along the two countries’ shared boundary.
The milk factory is invested by TH Groupwith a design capacity of 500,000 tonnes per year by 2017. The firstphase of the factory will see 200,000 tonnes of fresh milk produced peryear.
The factory is part of TH Group’s 1.2 billion USD projectto develop large-scale dairy farms and milk processing industry. Besidesthe factory, the project’s first phase has also built farms raising45,000 cows on 8,100ha of pasture to supply raw material.
The group aims to increase its cow herd to 137,000 heads by 2017, meeting half of the raw milk supply in the country.
Speaking at the event, PM Dung highly valued the company’s investmentin producing and processing milk as well as investing in high-qualitycows to ensure supply.
He said this it is in the right directionand in accordance with policies to encourage the food processingindustry and use locally sourced materials.
The factory willcreate jobs for local people, reduce Vietnam ’s dependence onimported milk and promote Vietnam ’s dairy industry to the world, headded.
Earlier on the same day, the two Prime Ministers visitedthe rubber plantation ❀of Nꦗghe An Rubber Investment and Development JSCin Thanh Duc commune, the province’s Thanh Chuong district.-VNA
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