$500B projects make Tay Ninh a high-tech livestock hub

Expanding the livestock - processing - export value chain

On March 25, in Tay Ninh province, the Chairman of the Tay Ninh Provincial People's Committee, Le Van Han, chaired a reception and working session with De Heus Group and Hung Nhon Group. Also attending were Vice Chairmen of the Provincial People's Committee, including Mr. Nguyen Hong Thanh, Mr. Nguyen Minh Lam, Mr. Huynh Van Son, along with leaders of various departments and agencies.

The parties focused their discussions on investment strategies, scaling up production, and promoting the livestock-processing-export value chain in Tay Ninh. This chain is built on a closed-loop model, ensuring comprehensive control from breeding stock, feed, and farming to processing and distribution, while strictly adhering to international standards such as GlobalGAP.

According to representatives of the two groups, the De Heus - Hung Nhon joint venture has been implementing 12 projects in Tay Ninh province with a total investment of 10,000 billion VND. The projects focus on developing high-tech livestock farming, breeding stock production and building a modern processing system.

In the 2026-2036 period, plans are to expand laying hen and pullet facilities, raising the entire chain's total investment to approximately 13,100 billion VND (approximately $497 billion). The whole system is gradually forming an industrial-scale, concentrated livestock-farming zone, operating on platforms of biosecurity, automation, and international-standard management.

Concurrently, the projects integrate waste-treatment solutions based on a circular-economy model, in which livestock by-products are converted into biogas for operations and production, while simultaneously generating high-quality microbiological organic fertilizers.

Previously, on March 23 in Ho Chi Minh City, Hung Nhon Group, De Heus Group, Bel Ga, and TTC Energy signed a strategic partnership in solar power, aiming to supplement renewable energy for the entire chain. This approach contributes to optimizing operational costs, reducing emissions and increasing sustainable value throughout the system.

The projects are implemented using a closed-loop process, modern technology, and international standards such as ISO and GlobalGAP. Notably, De Heus and Hung Nhon's projects aim for a green economy model, sustainable development, and contribute to achieving the net-zero emissions goal by 2050 as directed by the Vietnamese Government. Upon completion, the entire system is expected to reach a capacity of 80 million breeding chickens per year, 25 million broiler chickens for export per year, and 10,000 great-grandparent pigs, establishing a crucial foundation for developing a sustainable, stable and long-term livestock value chain.

Demonstrating a clear determination to accelerate progress and soon put the projects into operation, the two groups aim to complete, inaugurate, and operate a series of key components by late 2026 and early 2027, including a high-tech poultry slaughtering and processing plant, breeding chicken and pig facilities and a fertilizer production plant.

Mr. Vu Manh Hung, Chairman of Hung Nhon Group, added that in this joint chain, Hung Nhon will collaborate with world-leading enterprises such as De Heus (Netherlands), Bel Ga (Belgium), Olmix (France), Big Dutchman (Germany), Orvia (France), and Den Ouden GrowSolutions (Netherlands) to invest in and develop high-tech applied projects, expand production chain linkages and supply Halal-certified poultry products (breeding stock and commercial).

According to the plan, with the slaughterhouse coming into operation alongside the synchronized production chain, Tay Ninh province expects to export its first batch of chicken products to the Halal market in early 2027. Previously, in 2023, Visakan Biotechnology Investment and Development Joint Stock Company, part of the Hung Nhon Group ecosystem, exported its first shipment of veterinary medicine to the Halal market.

Laying the foundation for Tay Ninh to become a high-tech livestock hub

Speaking about the decision to develop the project chain in Tay Ninh, Mr. Johan van den Ban, General Director of De Heus Vietnam and Asia, stated that this factory complex is invested with modern, advanced technology from Europe, contributing to reducing emissions and limiting negative environmental impacts. The poultry slaughtering capacity reaches approximately 18.7 million birds/year (equivalent to 6,000 birds/hour), meeting large-scale processing demands for export. "This is a significant project chain, creating a solid premise for Tay Ninh to become a high-tech livestock and food processing hub for the region and the whole country", shared Mr. Johan van den Ban.

Representatives of the two groups highly evaluated the investment environment in Tay Ninh province. During the investment process, they have always received active attention and support from leaders of departments, sectors and communal People's Committees. This is a crucial driving force for the enterprises to choose Tay Ninh as their "headquarters" for a long-term investment strategy with a vision to 2050.

Speaking at the meeting, Chairman of the Tay Ninh Provincial People's Committee Le Van Han highly praised the project chain that the two groups are implementing locally. These are projects that can leverage the natural conditions and advantages of Tay Ninh province and perfectly align with the locality's development strategy. The Chairman was also impressed by the figures shared by the groups' representatives, especially the project implementation progress.

The Chairman stated that the province would proactively resolve obstacles, creating the most favorable conditions for capable and professional enterprises like De Heus and Hung Nhon to feel secure in their long-term investments, contributing to local socio-economic development goals and concurrently pledged to accompany the enterprises throughout the project's duration.