Illustrative image (Source: VNA) Phu Yen (VNA) – Vietnam’s TH Group, famous forits TH True Milk brand, held a ground-breaking ceremony in the south centralprovince of Phu Yen on January 18 for a high-tech milch cow and milk processingcomplex. Lying in Son Dinh commune, the mountainous district of SonHoa, the project will raise 5,000 milch cows, build materials zones and producearound 72 tonnes of fresh milk per day in the first stage with a totalinvestment of 1.151 trillion VND (51.15 million USD). During the second stage, the cow herd will increase to20,000 heads at a combined cost of 4.570 trillion VND. Apart from more than 78 ha of land used for farms, the groupwill partner with local residents to build feed materials zone on a site ofroughly 377ha, mostly corn and grass for cows.The milk processing plant is due to be built in An Mycommune, Tuy An district. Thai Huong, TH Group founder, said the complex uses milchcow management technology of Israel, epidemics control system of New Zealandand water and waste treatment technology of Japan and the Netherlands. Once operational in early 2019, the project will raiseincome for thousands of workers in the locality.-VNA
The cows were on their way to TH Group’s US$2.7 billion hi-tech dairy farm complex in Ivanovskoe and Mikhailovskoe villages, Volokolask District, Moskva Province, Russia.The cows are of purebred Holstein Friesian (HF) breed, selected with molecular genetics technology and under genealogical management for three generations.The milk yield of the HF cow is about 11-12 tonnes per head, per circle of 305 days, double the average milk yield of 5.5 tonnes per cow head in RussiaThis is the first dairy project of Viet Nam in Russia and is also the largest agricultural project invested by Vietnam in Russia. The farm began…... [read more]
Upon announcing the successful development of this high-yield embryo, TH Group received a golden trophy from the Vietnam Association for Organic Agriculture, for achievements in developing organic cows with a view to improving community health.TH Group’s efforts first reaped rewards in September 2016, when a farm in Nghia Dan district of the central province of Nghe An saw the birth of the first organic calf in Vietnam. The calf was named “True Organic” by TH Group’s chairwoman Thai Huong, and is the ancestor of the group’s first fresh organic milk-producing animals.Since then, TH Group has developed more than 1,000 organic…... [read more]
In the project’s initial stage, 45,000 cows were raised on an area of 8,100 hectares and created jobs for thousands of local labourers, said TH Group Chairwoman Thai Huong. The group is planning to breed additional 30,000 cows in the central province of Thanh Hoa and 30,000 others in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. Afitag pedometers, which serve two purposes- cow identification and activity measuring, are put on the cows. Milk extraction is automated in self-contained process to ensure high-quality milk. Along with strict disease prevention, TH Group’s farms also apply standout nutrition and health care for their…... [read more]
Being presented a lot of national and international awards in business such as Asia’s 50 Power Businesswomen (2015 and 2016), Vietnam’s 20 Power Women, ASEAN Outstanding Businesswomen, Women Entrepreneur of Ho Chi Minh Era and most recently Vietnam’s 50 Power Women in March 2017, Madam Thai Huong, President of the Board of Directors of TH Group, is very active in social security programmes like milk for students programme and a lot of goodwill charity programmes for the poor, families with martyrs and Vietnamese heroic mothers. In an interview granted to Vietnam Business Forum, she said “My business philosophy is rooted…... [read more]
A ceremony was held in the central coastal province of Phu Yen on April 1 to mark the 400 th founding anniversary and 36 years of its liberation. In his speech, Dao Tan Loc, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, said in the renewal process, beginning as an agriculture-based province, Phu Yen made efforts to ensure food security and step by step developed towards industrialisation and modernisation to improve local people's living standards. To date, 100 percent of the villages have got access to the national grid and the number of poor households has reduced to 9 percent. Considering industry…... [read more]
