Vinamilk raises milk cows in Thanh Hoa

Milk cows are being raised at the Dairy Demonstration and Experimental Farm in Binh Chanh District - Photo: Ngoc Hung

The new offshoot will be set up in cooperation with Thong Nhat Co. based in Thanh Hoa Province. The subsidiary will have charter capital of VND600 billion, with VND570 billion contributed by Vinamilk.

The new company will develop a farm of 2,600 hectares and have 26,000 cows.

According to a representative of Vinamilk, the farm will be developed in many phases under the model of farms in Australia and New Zealand and completed after five years.

Vinamilk now has five milk cow farms whose scales are 2,000-3,000 cows each, and the number of cows of the five farms is over 8,000. The firm plans to increase its herd to some 25,500 in 2015 and 28,000 in 2016.

To achieve such targets, Vinamilk has set aside over VND1.5 trillion to invest in four new farms in Tay Ninh, Ha Tinh and Thanh Hoa provinces.

In related news, HCMC has plans to increase the capacity of milk cows raised in the city from 5,000 kilograms per head a year to 8,000 kilograms by using farming techniques from Israel.

The city on Tuesday opened the Dairy Demonstration and Experimental Farm in the outlying district of Binh Chanh. The project aims to help farmers reduce farming costs and increase the milk productivity.

According to the HCMC Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, the current average capacity is 5,000 kilograms.

Under the project, the experimental farm will provide training courses as well as transfer farming technology of Israel to milk cow farmers.

Covering over ten hectares and consisting of different sections, the experimental farm has been developed at a cost of over VND70 billion, with the city’s budget accounting for over VND59 billion and the rest sourced from Israel’s non-refundable ODA.

Currently, Vietnam has around 170,000 milk cows, with HCMC alone accounting for nearly a half, at 83,000 cows, followed by Nghe An Province with around 30,000 head of cattle.