Vietnamese, Danish firms partner in boosting high-tech agriculture

A strategic cooperation deal was signed between Vietnam’s Tan Long Group and six Danish companies in Hanoi on September 5 to apply Denmark’s advanced technologies in local rice and pig production projects.
Vietnamese, Danish firms partner in boosting high-tech agriculture ảnh 1Representatives of Tan Long Group and six Danish companies sign the deal on September 5 (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – A strategiccooperation deal was signed between Vietnam’s Tan Long Group and six Danishcompanies in Hanoi on September 5 to apply Denmark’s advanced technologies in localrice and pig production projects.

The Danish partners – namely Skiold, Munters,Tornordic, Danbred, Vilomix, and Haarslev – will provide technologies andsolutions under the turnkey format in the fields of pig farm equipment,processing cereal, solutions for animal feed factories, pig breed provision,slaughtering and processing, and meat and bone meal.

Nguyen Chanh Trung, Managing Director for therice production section of Tan Long Group, said the technologies and solutions fromthe Danish partners will help his firm optimise the production, processing and storageof rice products as well as pig farming.

Skiold CEO Lasse Viegand Hansen said it is hisfirm’s honour to become a strategic partner of Tan Long, supplying solutionsand equipment for the biggest rice cleaning, drying, and preserving project inVietnam. This project will have a capacity of 120,000 tonnes which willincrease to 240,000 tonnes in the second phase.

Tan Long is a major enterprise specialising inagricultural products in Vietnam. The firm produces about 350,000 pigs per yearand plans to raise this number to 1 million in the near future. It is alsobuilding a large farm in Myanmar with the aim of supplying 100,000 pigs forthis market in 2019.

Vietnam and Denmark have long cooperated inagriculture and the food industry, especially in technologies for cultivation,animal husbandry, and aquaculture, as well as in the water, environment, andenergy sectors. Developing sustainable agricultural value chains and promotingfood quality and safety have continually been a focus of cooperation betweenthe two countries. –VNA
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