Vu Trong Nghia, director of the Bien Dong Trade Developed Investment Corporation, said his company has signed a contract with the Korea Food Company to sell 2,000 tonnes of pork per year.
Hanoi (VNA) - Vu Trong Nghia,director of the Bien Dong Trade Developed Investment Corporation, said hiscompany has signed a contract with the Korea Food Company to sell 2,000 tonnesof pork per year.
The company has also inked a Memorandum ofUnderstanding with Japan’s Minami Kyushu University on cooperation indeveloping agriculture and transferring technologies to process food, he added.
It has completed the building of a clean food processingand green breeding complex while a slaughtering plant with capacity of 300 pigsper hour and a cold storage are due to be put into operation in November 2017.
The company has two safe pig raising farms inthe northern province of Nam Dinh. It has connected with the high-qualitylivestock breeding centre at Vietnam National University of Agriculture toapply advanced technology in production.
Nghia said through the VIETGO Company, his firmhas received orders of importing around 9,000 tonnes of pork for the first yearfrom Korean businesses.
He hoped the State management agencies will soonopen export market for Vietnamese pork products.-VNA
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A pig raising farm in Vietnam (Photo VNA)
