Passion fruits are sorted at the fruit and vegetable processing centre of the Dong Giao Foodstuff Export JSC in Gia Lai province (Photo: VNA)Gia Lai (VNA) – The largest fruit and vegetableprocessing centre of the Central Highlands was inaugurated in Gia Lai provinceon September 9.
The factory complex of the Dong Giao FoodstuffExport JSC covers 6ha and is designed to manufacture 52,000 tonnes of products annually.
It comprises of three modern automatedproduction lines, including one for manufacturing fruit juice with a capacityof 20,000 tonnes per year, another for freezing vegetable and fruit with anannual capacity of 22,000 tonnes, and the rest for canning vegetable and fruit witha capacity of 10,000 tonnes per year.
Dinh Cao Khue, Chairman of the firm’s board ofdirectors, said the processing centre will help ensure stable consumption ofagricultural products of Gia Lai and the whole Central Highlands region.
It is set to generate an export turnover ofabout 100 million USD and revenue of 2 trillion VND (86.3 million USD) everyyear while providing jobs for tens of thousands of labourers in agriculture,industry, service, sale and transportation.
Particularly, as the complex will process 500tonnes of raw materials each day, it will form 10,000 – 15,000ha of large-scaleconcentrated farming areas applying high technology under value chains in theregion. It will help local fruit specialties like passion fruit, avocado,banana and durian gain a firm foothold in the global market, Khue stressed.
At the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister ofAgriculture and Rural Development Le Quoc Doanh said with the inauguration ofthis processing centre, Gia Lai province will have a favourable condition tokeep the 10,000ha of its fruit farming area stable and connect farmers withbusinesses, thus helping promote the stature of the Central Highlands’agricultural products.-VNA
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