Delegates at the ceremony to launch construction of Vietnam's most modern poultry processing plant (Photo: VNA) Thanh Hoa, (VNA) – Construction work started on thecountry’s most modern poultry processing plant in the north central province ofThanh Hoa on July 6.
The 300 billion VND (nearly 13.1 million USD) Viet Avis plantin Hoang Quy commune, Hoang Hoa district, is invested by the Master Good groupof Hungary and the local Phu Gia company. In the first phase, it will have a processingcapacity of 2,500 chickens per hour.
The event was attended by Minister of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment Nguyen Xuan Cuong and representatives from Thanh Hoa People’sCommittee and Hungary’s Ministry of Agriculture.
From now to 2020, Master Good and Phu Gia companies will alsoinvest in a chain of around 100 farms in 10 districts to supply chickens forthe plant, which will export products to European countries.
According to Thanh Hoa’s Department of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment, the livestock sector in the province has developed strongly inrecent years in both scale and product quality. Regarding poultry, the provincecurrently has 18.3 million fowls, supplying 36,327 tonnes of meat per year.
The province is restructuring the livestock sector towards valuechains with large-scale and hi-tech farms. It aims to have 23 million heads ofpoultry by 2020, producing 47,000 tonnes of meat (live weight) and 160.25billion eggs.-VNA
