Cargill expands animal feed mill in central Vietnam
- By AAC
- 13 May 2014
Cargill said its animal nutrition business has completed the USD 20 million expansion of an animal feed plant in Binh Dinh Province to meet increasing domestic demand, particularly in central Vietnam.
Cargill said in a statement that the expansion increased the plant’s annual capacity to 240,000 tons from 60,000 tons and helped ensure feed safety, ingredient quality and product integrity for the market.
In 2012, Cargill committed to building more animal feed plants in the country in order to expand its animal nutrition business in Vietnam and meet customers’ demand for quality feed and to double its annual feed capacity to 1.5 million tons by 2015. The expanded facility in Binh Dinh Province allows Cargill to produce a total compound feed capacity of 1.4 million tons.
The facility is one of Cargill’s eight compound feed mills in different regions of Vietnam. The company said with the new expansion, it had invested more than USD/10 million in Vietnam’s livestock and aquaculture industry over the last 10 years.
Cargill said it had arranged farming workshops to provide more than 1.5 million Vietnamese farmers with training in practices in animal husbandry through to help raise farming productivity and incomes.
Cargill established its presence in Vietnam in February 1995 with the opening of representative offices in Hanoi and HCMC, and Cargill Vietnam Limited was formed. In December 2009, it became the first U.S. company to obtain a license to distribute products directly in this market.
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