Veggie processing plant inaugurated in Tay Ninh
VGP – Lavifood Joint Stock Company officially put into operation its Tanifood vegetable and fruit processing plant in the southwestern province of Tay Ninh on January 6
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At the inauguration ceremony |
The 15-hectare Tanifood plant was constructed in Thanh Duc commune, Go Dau district, at a total cost of VND1.78 trillion (US$76.6 million). It is the first fruit processing factory in Tay Ninh and the largest in the country.
Equipped with advanced technologies from Germany, Sweden, Italy and Japan, the plant includes a production line for fresh fruits and vegetables and heat treatment with a total capacity of 10,000 tons per year, a frozen fruit and vegetable production line with a capacity of 20,000 tons, a production line for drying, soft-drying and sublimation drying of fruits and vegetables, and a line for producing condensed fruit juice.
According to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong, the plant was established in a potential land with some 400,000 hectares of fertile soil, and more than 30,000 industrious farmer households.
“If there are more plants like this, Tay Ninh province will get rich from agriculture”, he stressed.
The plant makes international-standard products for export to the U.S., the European Union, the Republic of Korea, Japan and Australia.
By Vien Nhu
