De Hues will be allowed to join a pilotproject on planting maize and raising cows imported from Australia, onan area of 66 ha in Moc Bac commune, Duy Tien district.
Duringthe March 3 working session with officials from the company, Dungpledged that his province will provide land for the Dutch producer tobuild a cattle-feed factory once they expand operations in the north.
He introduced to the guests a plan to increase the province’s dairy herd to 6,000 heads by 2020 from the current 400 ones.
Dung expressed his hopes for local breeders to receive technicalassistance from De Hues, which boasts 100-year experience in the animalfeed and cattle farming industry, to bring their dairy cattle quality tointernational standards.
De Hues Vietnam Director Gabor Fluitsaid his company is running four cattle-feed factories in Vietnam, withthree based in the south and one in northern Hai Phong port city. Itplans to build three more plants in northern localities, including HaNam.
Apart from undertaking a number of agriculture productionmodels, like those on raising dairy cows and pigs, Ha Nam is persuadinginvestors to build high-quality animal feed factories to help increasethe locals’ income.-VNA