Tay Ninh (VNA) – Lavifood JointStock Company officially put into operation its Tanifood vegetable andfruit processing plant in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh on January 6,hoping to make international-standard products for export to the US, the EuropeanUnion, the Republic of Korea, Japan and Australia.
At theinauguration ceremony, Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh emphasised theimportance of the plant to the country’s agriculture. He asked Lavifood leadersto better the quality of products and enhance competitive capacity to make morecontributions to the agricultural product processing sector.
Provincial authorities should accompany and support the company to raise thevalue of vegetables, while competent ministries and sectors must continueproviding assistance, and removing bottlenecks for it, he added.
According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong,the plant was established in a potential land with some 400,000 hectares offertile soil, and more than 30,000 industrious farmer households.
“If there are more plants like this, Tay Ninh province will get rich fromagriculture”, he stressed.
The 15-hectare Tanifood plant was constructed in Thanh Duc commune, Go Daudistrict, at a total cost of 1.78 trillion VND (76.6 million USD). It is thefirst fruit processing factory in Tay Ninh and the largest in the country.
Equipped with advanced technologies fromGermany, Sweden, Italy and Japan, the plant includes a production line forfresh fruits and vegetables and heat treatment with a total capacity of 10,000tonnes per year, a frozen fruit and vegetable production line with a capacityof 20,000 tonnes, a production line for drying, soft-drying and sublimationdrying of fruits and vegetables, and a line for producing condensed fruitjuice.
Pham Ngo Quoc Thang, General Directorof the Lavifood JSC, said that the birth of Tanifood will help increasevalue of Vietnamese farm produce, and improve incomes of local farmers, from0.26 USD per square metre to 3.6 USD per square metre.-VNA