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Japanese group to spend $1mn building clean vegetable production plant in Vietnam

Japanese group to spend $1mn building clean vegetable production plant in Vietnam

Thursday, April 09, 2015, 21:03 GMT+7

A Japanese group has decided to invest $1 million in building a pilot fresh vegetable production plant in northern Vietnam, newswire Vietnamplus reported Wednesday.

Daiken Murakami, general director of Showa Denko Group, announced the firm’s investment in a trial plant, situated in Ha Nam Province, producing clean vegetables using LED-light technology during a working session with the local People’s Committee yesterday.

The facility, which is the group’s first of its kind in a foreign country, will be built at the Dong Van II Industrial Park in Duy Tien District and is expected to start production late this year.

The production scale will be expanded if the pilot plant yields a successful result, according to Vietnamplus.

After conducting a survey in a number of provinces in Vietnam, Showa Denko Group chose Ha Nam as the venue for its vegetable production plant using LED technology thanks to the province’s good policies, a convenient transportation network, and a favorable geographical location.

Ha Nam is just 57km south of Hanoi, which is Vietnam’s capital city.

The group has successfully researched the technology to plant clean vegetables in-house using LED lights, which can create optimal light waves that meet its development demand while eliminating waste and reducing costs for the growers. This technology is now essential for agricultural production as climate change is beginning to have a negative impact on the conventional outdoor cultivation methods, according to the newswire. Showa Denko Group has built a total of 21 clean vegetable production plants in Japan so far. Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Mai Tien Dung emphasized that the group’s investment is in line with Ha Nam’s strategy to advance local agriculture.

The provincial authorities will facilitate procedures for the group to go ahead with the project, Dung said.

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