November 27, 2007

Thailand to open fish food plant

Thailand recently issued an investment license to a livestock company to produce feed for fish and shrimp farming.

Provincial People's Committee vice chairman Nguyen Quoc Bao issued the licence to CP Vietnam Livestock Co Ltd on Thursday.

The project will be the biggest of its kind in the province as it will cover an area of 12 hectares at the An Hiep Industrial Complex in Chau Thanh District in Thailand.

The plant is targeted to open on August 2008 and would produce a total of 384,000 tonnes per year.

Nguyen Truc Son, director of the provincial Trade Promotion Centre, said that it is the province's first plant to produce fish food.

Son pointed that many people in the region were raising fish and shrimp, so there would be a market for the plant's goods.

The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province has 40,000 hectares used to raise sugpo prawns and tra and basa catfish.

Currently, local farmers buy fish food from other provinces. Son said that with the plant's completion next year, the demands of the farmers for fish food would be met.