Vietnamese, Lao leaders inaugurate fresh milk factory
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and
his Lao counterpart Thongsing Thammavong were in Nghe An to co-chaired a
ceremony on July 9 marking the completion of a project on increasing
and upgrading border markers along the two countries’ shared boundary.
The milk factory is invested by TH Group
with a design capacity of 500,000 tonnes per year by 2017. The first
phase of the factory will see 200,000 tonnes of fresh milk produced per
year.
The factory is part of TH Group’s 1.2 billion USD project
to develop large-scale dairy farms and milk processing industry. Besides
the factory, the project’s first phase has also built farms raising
45,000 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 investment
in producing and processing milk as well as investing in high-quality
cows to ensure supply.
He said this it is in the right direction
and in accordance with policies to encourage the food processing
industry and use locally sourced materials.
The factory will
create jobs for local people, reduce Vietnam ’s dependence on
imported milk and promote Vietnam ’s dairy industry to the world, he
added.
Earlier on the same day, the two Prime Ministers visited
the rubber plantation of Nghe An Rubber Investment and Development JSC
in Thanh Duc commune, the province’s Thanh Chuong district.-VNA