A farm of brown rice is grown as the first organic farm in Quang Tri Province. — Photo Cong Thanh

QUANG TRI (Biz Hub) — The central province has commenced construction of 110ha farm for brown rice development and a rice milk plant project – the first organic farm – in Hai Lang District.

The provincial administration said the VND160billion (US$7.1 million) project will produce 100 million litres of rice milk and nutrition drinks from brown rice for domestic use and export from next year.

It will be the first organic farm project and an agricultural processing plant in the central region that is expected to promote the province as a high-tech farming site in Viet Nam.

The province also plans a 14,000ha farm as a high-tech zone that will produce lotus milk and have a freshwater fish culture centre.

In the 2011-15 period, Quang Tri attracted 262 domestic and foreign projects with a combined investment capital of about VND50.3 trillion (more than US$2.23 billion).

The province has granted investment licences to 15 projects worth VND10 trillion ($444 million).

The province, situated in the East-West Economic Corridor and Trans-Asia road link with Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, has called for foreign investment in organic and hi-tech farming and the processing industry. – VNS