At the ground-breaking ceremony. (Photo: nhandan.com)Hanoi (VNA) – The TH Groupbegan construction of its fruit and fruit juice processing factory in Van Hodistrict in the northern mountainous province of Son La on January 25.
Capitalised at 1.2 trillion VND (53 millionUSD), the factory will be developed in two phases.
The first, worth 300 billion VND, willprocess fruits such as orange, longan, mango and passion fruits with an annualcapacity of 30,000 tonnes of products to be sold to other fruit juiceproducers.
Meanwhile, the second, valued at 900billion VND, will provide several kinds of canned fruit juices.
In her speech at the groundbreaking ceremony, Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong suggested the TH Group acceleratethe construction of the factory.
She also called on local authorities tocreate the most favourable conditions for the group to put its project intooperation soon, helping create more jobs and boosting incomes for farmers inthe locality.
Currently, Son La province has 42,600h offruits and is striving to increase the figure to 100,000 ha by 2020.-VNA
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