What do you see at TH Group's 'million dollar' farm?

(Baonghean) - High-tech agricultural production is a trend, an inevitable direction and is increasingly asserting its advantage in the market, especially in adapting to increasingly extreme weather.

Realize concerns and aspirations

The fertile red basalt land is bursting with new life with many factories and constructions. This place has long been famous for coffee, rubber, sugarcane, oranges, Quang Tien pink grapefruit... Especially since TH Group came here, there are hundreds of valuable products that meet export standards.

The group's chain of large-scale, impressive farm factories such as TH Milk Factory, fruit juice processing factory, medicinal herbs, international clean vegetable farm... along Ho Chi Minh road is the stature of a proud modern agriculture not only of Nghe An but of all of Vietnam.

TH Group's clean vegetable farm in Nghia Dan. Photo: Chau Lan

Ms. Thai Huong - Chairwoman of TH Group said: "Society is having too many concerns about food safety. We want to participate in building international standards for food, creating trust in the organic food market in Vietnam".

After the success of TH Dairy Farm and TH Milk Factory, the Group has invested 670 billion VND with a total area of ​​130 hectares to produce clean vegetables and fruits.

Up to now, at FVF International Clean Vegetable and Fruit Production and Supply Joint Stock Company under TH True Milk Group in Nghia Dan, a system of 9 greenhouses with a total area of ​​4.3 hectares has been built with modern and systematic investment, 14.7 hectares of organic vegetable fields meeting European standards and over 100 hectares of open fields producing according to VietGAP process.

The average yield of many types of vegetables and fruits in greenhouses (5,000 m2/house) reaches 25 - 30 tons/house/crop (about 50 - 60 tons/ha/crop, depending on the type of vegetable and fruit), increasing 3 - 5 times, and profits increasing more than 3 times.

In this greenhouse system, products produced according to the world's most demanding standards are born such as: Queen Melon, strawberry, chili, tomato, cucumber, purple kohlrabi... 15 hectares of organic vegetable area continuously spread out with all the colors of purple of red beet, light green of lettuce, dark green of kale... currently supplying clean vegetables to the market from North to South and available in supermarkets across the country.

Revenue from high-tech clean vegetable production at FVF currently reaches over 45 billion VND/year.

Growing clean vegetables in greenhouses at TH farm. Photo: Tran Chau

It can be said that in today's success of TH, there is an extremely important role of intelligence, high technology, the latest technology applied to modern agriculture: greenhouse technology, membrane house technology, drip irrigation technology, organic production technology, information, mechanical machinery...

Creating a "value chain" of clean vegetables and fruits

Taking us to visit the fields stretching under the dawn light on each row of spinach, kale, and green lettuce receiving water from the automatic spray system, engineer Nguyen Van Quyen said: Vegetables here are grown using organic methods; no pesticides are used, only organic fertilizers are used. When there are worms or insects, the staff must detect them early and handle them by hand or with a net.

Around the farm, colorful wildflowers are continuously arranged to attract bees, butterflies, and insects as an effective biological solution.

Butterfly flowers, five-color flowers, buckwheat flowers, etc. surround the greenhouse growing high-quality vegetables and fruits imported directly from Israel with longer durability than growing media in Vietnam and, most importantly, sterile, from which the business adds fertilizer and necessary nutrients to grow the plants.

Vegetable processing at International Vegetable and Fruit Production and Supply Joint Stock Company of TH Group.

At the medicinal herbs and vegetable processing area, the processing area starts at 3pm and works until night to supply vegetables to supermarkets in the city by 5am. Workers here said: Harvesting vegetables must be clean, after harvesting, vegetables must not come into contact with soil, vegetables must not be crushed, there is a daily log book to record what plants are harvested, when, who harvested, and where.

Engineer Tran Hoai Thanh - Production Director at FVF International Clean Vegetable and Fruit Production and Supply Joint Stock Company said: To produce clean agricultural products, FVF has strictly implemented the stages of selecting land, varieties, care, harvesting, processing and packaging, all of which must be carried out according to the set standards.

Currently, TH's clean vegetable farm has 80 products meeting VietGAP standards, 37 products meeting European and American Organic standards. In addition to vegetables, TH also grows clean guava and grapefruit on the farm, along with hundreds of hectares of medicinal herbs such as gac fruit, pennywort, passionflower, etc.

And now in Nghia Dan land, the presence of TH Group with the achievements of high-tech agriculture shows that nothing is impossible. The desire to conquer, intelligence and the most modern technology in the world have blended to create achievements that make anyone who comes here admire and feel proud.

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