Delegates cut the ribbon to open Cargill's US$8.5 million animal nutrition plant in Nam Cấm Industrial Zone in Nghệ An Province. — VNS Photo

HCM CITY (Biz Hub) — Cargill has opened a US$8.5 million animal nutrition plant in the Nam Cam Industrial Zone inside the Dong Nam Economic Zone in Nghe An Province, bringing Cargill's total number of animal feed mills in Viet Nam to 11.

The new facility, which opened on May 28, provides animal feed for livestock and will have a total capacity of 66,000 metric tonnes per year.

It incorporates Cargill's uncompromising approach to feed safety, ingredient quality and product integrity.

Speaking at the press conference in HCM City on May 30, Jorge Becerra, country representative and managing director of Cargill's feed and nutrition business in Viet Nam, said Viet Nam was one of the leading markets for animal feed in Southeast Asia.

The company is on track to expand its production line in the country, including building a new $30 million animal feed mill in Binh Duong with the latest technologies and an $8 million expansion in Ha Nam plant starting next month, he said

The two projects are expected to be completed in 2017.

The company also added a new production line at its plant in Dong Thap Province in the first quarter this year to enable it to increase production of specialty aquatic feed.

It also committed to building 100 schools across rural areas in Viet Nam by 2020 after building 78 schools by May this year.

Entering Viet Nam in 1995, Cargill Viet Nam is one of the leading animal nutrition companies in the country, producing premixed and compound feed. It also deals in food and beverage ingredients, grain, oilseed and metals.

Sarena Lin, president of Cargill's global feed and nutrition business, said: "Viet Nam is one of our best performing markets in our animal nutrition business globally." — VNS