Dong Thap to have large aquaculture feed mills

News - Hung Ca Co., Ltd on Tuesday kicked off construction of an aquaculture feed mill and fish oil refinery in Binh Thanh Industrial Zone in the southern province of Dong Thap.

Costing a total of VND250 billion and covering eight hectares of land, the two mill projects are set to become operational by December. The feed mill is designed to have a daily capacity of 800 tons while another produces 300 tons of fish feed and fish oil a day using advanced European lines.

The two factories each year will supply 290,000 tons of fish feed and over 400,000 tons of aquaculture feed to Hung Ca Co. and fish and shrimp farmers in the Mekong Delta, said Tran Van Hau, managing director of Hung Ca Co.

“Aquaculture feed price volatility posed one of the biggest difficulties for the firm last year. The presence of these two mills sets a benchmark for us and means we have to complete the closed process from farming, processing to export as well as produce high value products by using available by-products,” Hau said.

Hung Ca Co. is cultivating tra fish on 410 hectares, which is considered one of the largest farming areas in the delta. It also has two tra fish processing factories.