Vinamilk wants to invest VND 6,000 billion dairy farm in Can Tho

In a meeting with the leaders of Can Tho City People's Committee on August 30, Ms. Mai Kieu Lien, General Director of Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk), said that the current milk material source in the Mekong Delta region is still not yet meet the demand for dairy factories in Tra Noc-Can Tho Industrial Park.

To meet the production needs of this factory, for many years Vinamilk had to mobilize materials from other places in terms of cost, time and transportation costs. Therefore, Ms. Lien asked Can Tho City People's Committee to allow Vinamilk to cooperate with Song Hau Farm to invest in a hi-tech dairy farm that meets the Global Good Agricultural Practice (Global G.A.P) with a scale of 500 hectares.

In the first stage of development with 20,000 children, the total invested capital is VND 4,000 billion. In particular, there are 4,000 adopted children according to the organic standard (Organic) and 16,000 ordinary adoptions and then it is possible to develop the dairy herd to 40,000-60,000 cows with a total investment of up to VND 6,000 billion to meet the raw materials. for factory in Can Tho.

Ms. Lien added that Vinamilk now has a system of 10 operating farms, all with large scale with all breeding cows imported from Australia, the US, and New Zealand. Vinamilk's farm system is the first in Southeast Asia to meet Global G.A.P's international standards.)

The dairy farm in Da Lat which was inaugurated in March 2017 is the first organic dairy farm in Vietnam to achieve Organic Europe standard certified by Control Union Organization.

Currently, the total herd of cows to supply milk to the company including Vinamilk's farms and farmers having signed contracts to sell milk to Vinamilk is more than 120,000 cows, with the plan to develop new and public farms. The company will bring the total number of cows to about 200,000 by 2020.

In addition to 13 factories in Vietnam, Vinamilk also invested in building milk factories in Cambodia, New Zealand, the United States, Poland ... Vinamilk's products are also present in more than 40 countries around the world.

According to Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phu, Director of Song Hau Farm: the farm has 224 hectares available and can be expanded to 500 hectares ready to cooperate with Vinamilk to invest in dairy farms. The farm is in the restructuring phase and wants Vinamilk to become a strategic partner.

Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee Vo Thanh Thong said: As a city coming from agriculture, Can Tho is trying to restructure the city's agriculture towards high-tech agriculture, creating added value. , higher profits for producers. Currently, the local farmer's income is only VND 50 million / ha / year which is quite low. The information provided by Vinamilk shows that farmers surrounding Vinamilk's dairy farms earn 3-4 times higher income from planting grass and maize to feed the cows, which is a good income. high. Thus, the project not only creates profits for investors, increases revenue for the budget but also contributes greatly to creating jobs and improving incomes for people.
On that basis, Mr. Thong highly welcomed investors who chose Can Tho as the location and investment area that the locality needed and promised to create the most favorable conditions for investors to implement the project.

Regarding the choice of project investment location, according to Mr. Thong, there are two ways: first, it is to use 224 hectares of land under the management of Hau River Farm to invest, which can then be expanded in the region. vicinity; second, is to accept the city's hi-tech agricultural project in order to implement it. The Chairman of Can Tho City People's Committee also assigned the Department of Planning and Investment to act as the focal point, in coordination with other departments and Co Do district to guide investors to study the project formulation and implementation of investment procedures according to regulations.