(Baonghean.vn)- During the annual meeting between the Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Lao delegation visited TH Group and the Song Sao irrigation dam project.
Attending the visit and working program were representatives of the Office of the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, the Department of Livestock and Crop Production under the Ministry, and leaders of a number of relevant agencies and departments. On the Vietnamese side, there was comrade Le Quoc Doanh, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and leaders of affiliated agencies. On the Nghe An province side, there was comrade Ho Ngoc Sy, member of the Provincial Party Committee, Director of the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, and leaders of relevant agencies and units.
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| Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Lao PDR worked at TH Group |
In Nghia Dan district, the delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Lao People's Democratic Republic visited the clean milk production line, visited the raw material field using modern machinery to harvest and process cow feed, visited the automatic cow milking area, etc. Here, the leaders of TH Group introduced to the delegates the scale of the group's dairy cow project as well as the development direction in the coming time.
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| Visit milk processing plant |
This is a clean milk project with a scale of 137 thousand dairy cows, a total investment of 1.2 billion USD with closed, completely modern systems using the world's leading advanced technology. Of which, phase one is 350 million USD, completed in July 2012, with a modern farm system with a total herd of 45,000 cows, of which 30,000 are lactating, along with a modern processing plant with a capacity of 500 tons/day. By 2017, the project is expected to have 137,000 cows and a processing plant with a capacity of 500 million liters/year. This is a project that applies the world's most advanced scientific and technical measures in large-scale dairy farming and processing.
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| Visit the dairy feed processing control center |
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| Delegates learn about modern milking technology. |
Cow breeds are imported from New Zealand, Israel's synchronous breeding technology ensures milk quality and yield meet international standards,...
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| The farm's cows during milking time. |
The representative of the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry highly appreciated the TH Group's milk project and wished to learn from its experiences in the process of calling for investment, project development as well as management methods.
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| Representatives of the delegation and TH Group gave each other souvenirs. |
At the same time, the leaders of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Laos hope that Vietnamese investors will boldly bring advanced technology to invest in Laos in the near future, especially in the field of high-tech agriculture as TH Group is doing.
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| Modern food harvesting technology on raw material fields attracts attention of Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry leaders |
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| Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Lao PDR visited the Song Sao irrigation project. |
On the same day, the delegation visited the Song Sao irrigation project. Built in 1999, the Song Sao irrigation project has a water surface area of 860 hectares, a capacity of 51 million cubic meters of water, serving irrigation for 6,600 hectares of agricultural land in the downstream area and providing water for the TH Group's milk project.
Nguyen Khoa
