Intro
On November 21, 2017, Sao Mai Group has hosted the inauguration of Sao Mai Super Feed’s Aquaculture Feed Factory, located in Sao Mai Industrial Zone, Dong Thap Province. Our invited guests were leaders from the People’s Committee of the local and adjacent provinces. In addition, there were also leaders from Ministries, Associations, Banks, Stock Exchanges, large-scale raw-material suppliers, feed wholesalers and aquaculture farmers.
Sao Mai Super Feed Limited Company
Sao Mai Super Feed’s Aquaculture Feed Factory was started in 2015, with production capacity of 420,000 metric tons per year, total investment capital of about 1,000 billion VND (approximately $43 million USD). Our factory has state-of-the-art design and technologies. In addition, all equipment is imported from famous European and US manufacturers. Our production process follows the “3H” standard (Healthy - High Quality – High Technology). Sao Mai Super Feed’s Aquaculture Feed Factory is equipped with 7 lines of production, each line’s output is 12 metric tons per hour. In addition, the raw material loading process is closed and fully automatic. In the 1st stage, the factory will produce feed for tilapia and pangasius following the TCVN 10300 - 2014 National standard.
Sao Mai Super Feed has contributed to create a sustainable breakthrough for Vietnamese Pangasius Industry on the global market, because feed accounts for about 60-65% of the Pangasius value chain. This is an important highlight for the aquaculture farming industry, for almost 20 years, Pangasius has become a strategic product that plays an important role in Vietnam’s aquaculture export, from a local species that was mostly caught in natural environment. Currently, Pangasius has been exported to over 150 countries, farming quantity increases 50 times, exceeds 1 million metric tons per year, export value increases 65 times and accounts for 2% GDP of the whole country. Along with Black Tiger Shrimp, Pangasius is the essential item that is specially considered by the government. Therefore, Sao Mai Group was the first to invest in a closed value chain of Pangasius following the 3F model (Feed-Farm-Food) meaning the model includes feed factory, farm, processing plant and distribution to consumers.
Bringing the aquaculture’s stature to a whole new level on the international market
Sao Mai group promotes cooperating with top-level experts in the aquaculture feed industry, research and development to produce the types of aquaculture feed that has low FCR (Feed Consumption Ratio), which helps farms to generate higher profit and optimize the Pangasius processing quota. The raw materials for feed production is strictly controlled to ensure they satisfy quality standards as well as the industry standards such as 10TCN 864:2006, 10TCN 984:2006, etc. by the Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development; optimize according to the international standards like: HACCP, ISO, GLOBAL GAP, ASC, BAP, by including fully all nutrients, vitamins, minerals in order to ensure satisfying all standards of the strict markets such as Europe and US.
Sao Mai Super Feed is a right move, a turning point in Vietnam’s closed Pangasius production process performed firstly by Sao Mai Group from farming stage, processing stage and uses all by-products in order to enhance the value chain and move towards a sustainable development, to create a strong foundation to grow economically in the new economic era. On the other hand, the feed factory also creates employments for hundreds of highly-skilled and secondary-level workers, which creates social security and contributes to transforming the economic structure of the Mekong Delta Region.