The project, invested by WestFood Joint Stock Company for Export Food Processing, is considered one of the largest agricultural processing plants in the Mekong Delta.
On the morning of September 26, WestFood officially inaugurated the Hau Giang Agro-Food Processing Complex, located in Song Hau Industrial Park – Phase 1, Chau Thanh Commune (Can Tho City). The plant has a designed capacity of 30,000 tons of finished products per year and a total investment of nearly VND 670 billion.
The inauguration of the Hau Giang Agro-Food Processing Complex marks the successful collaboration between the enterprise and the Can Tho City government.
The plant is one of the projects inaugurated to celebrate the 1st Congress of the Can Tho City Party Committee for the 2025–2030 term.
Equipped with cutting-edge technology that meets European standards, the factory includes a European IQF quick-freezing system, a three-tier automated conveyor system, automatic fruit peeling and slicing machines, automated canned and cup fruit production lines, and cold and chilled storage facilities with a total capacity of up to 3,000 tons.
Nguyen Van Hoa, Vice Chairman of the Can Tho City People’s Committee, emphasized that in recent years, the city has focused on improving the investment environment, upgrading infrastructure, and enhancing human resource quality to attract large-scale, modern, and environmentally friendly projects.
He also urged WestFood to continue researching and surveying opportunities to invest in additional agricultural processing facilities to better utilize the region’s abundant raw material resources.
Once operational, the Hau Giang Agro-Food Processing Complex will contribute to the formation of a closed agricultural supply chain, ensuring stable output for raw material areas in Can Tho and neighboring provinces.
Vice Chairman Nguyen Van Hoa recommended that WestFood operate the plant and manage its investment capital efficiently while continuing to upgrade technology, diversify products, expand export markets, and increase raw material areas. These efforts, he said, will help enhance the global presence of the Can Tho agricultural brand.
With a vision to make WestFood one of Vietnam’s leading agricultural processing enterprises, Chairwoman and CEO Nguyen Thi Minh Nguyet reaffirmed the company’s commitment to investing in advanced technology to ensure the highest product quality that meets the strict standards of demanding markets.
Over the past 20 years, WestFood’s products have reached many major international markets such as the EU, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and China. Its main products include canned fruits, frozen and semi-dried vegetables and fruits, and fresh produce.
Since 2018, WestFood has partnered with local farmers in My Tu, Long Hung, and Phuong Binh communes (Can Tho City) to cultivate MD2 pineapples on formerly acidic soil. The company has since developed 150 hectares of MD2 pineapple farming areas and plans to expand to 1,200 hectares by 2030.
Farmer Tran Hoang Nghia from Long Hung Commune shared that thanks to WestFood’s technical guidance, which helped reduce production costs and increase yields, as well as the company’s commitment to purchasing all harvested products, his family has earned over VND 150 million per hectare annually in recent years.
“After more than seven years of cultivating MD2 pineapples on previously barren land, farmers’ lives have significantly improved. Rural areas are becoming more prosperous, and people’s livelihoods are increasingly stable,” Nghia said.
At the inauguration ceremony, WestFood also signed cooperation agreements with its domestic and international partners, reinforcing its commitment to building a sustainable agricultural value chain.
The launch of the Hau Giang Agro-Food Processing Complex serves as a strong driving force for WestFood to continue expanding its raw material regions, diversifying agricultural products, and fostering long-term linkages between enterprises and farmers.
