At Can Tho New Year Fair 2021 held from February 4th to February 8th, 2021, Westfood’s MD2 pineapple is loved by consumers. This is one of the occasions that Westfood introduces the MD2 pineapple variety in the domestic market.
Numerous consumers visit the Westfood booth to buy MD2 pineapple as they find it juicy and sweet, its price is also reasonable, a big one is only 70,000 VND / each. Some others buy MD2 pineapple to display on their New Year’s five-fruit tray because MD2 pineapple has an appealing appearance.
As one of the leading companies processing and exporting varieties of fruits in Vietnam, Westfood’s products have conquered manifold demanding markets. Apart from the products exported to foreign countries, Westfood has also given way to products into the domestic market, typically MD2 pineapple variety – the company’s strategic product.
It is known that Westfoods is the first unit in Vietnam to own and successfully grow MD2 pineapple in Can Tho. This is a pineapple variety originating from Central America (Costa Rica and Honduras), which has high nutritional value, outstanding yield, large fruit, thin paring, nice yellow color, sweet, scented flesh, not causing marting tongues. Currently Westfood MD2 pineapple products are very popular in Japan, Korea, Australia …
In 2020, the company successfully brought MD2 pineapple into a chain of high-end fruit stores such as Farmers Market, Nam An Market in Ho Chi Minh City.
Mr. Nguyen Vu Loc in the interview of VTV9 channel about pineapple MD2 at Tet Festival Can Tho 2021
Delighted by the achievement and advancement of Westfood Company in recent years, Ms. Nguyen Thi Kieu Duyen, Deputy Director of Can Tho Investment – Trade Promotion Center and Exhibition Fair highly appreciated the efforts as also Westfood’s success in MD2 pineapple project and accomplishment in domestic growth.
Westfood’s booth at Can Tho Spring Fair
By the end of 2020, the company has approximately 100 hectares of the MD2 pineapple material area, of which 30 hectares conform to the GlobalGAP standards. In agreement with the plan, Westfood will expand the area of MD2 pineapple seed material to 500ha by 2023. This is the foundation for Westfood to be active in raw materials source, exploit and approach customers, diversify consumption markets. In the year 2021 as also the upcoming years, the company will present MD2 pineapple and value added products such as canned pineapple, IQF fast freezing to a chain of convenience stores and foreign supermarkets in Vietnam as Aeon or Lotte Mart nationwide.
