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Betagro launches farm equipment facility
Now that its manufacturing facility is ready for commercial production,
Thai livestock integrator Betagro has launched its export objective for two
products: ventilation controller technology (VenTec) and 50-inch energy saving
fans for an evaporative cooling system and for pig farming
(PowerTech).
The objective will be carried out in collaboration with
Betagro Group's subsidiary B International and Technology and King Mongkut
University of Technology (KMUTT), carried out under the Industry Technology
Assistance Programme (iTAP) of the National Science and Technology Development
Association (NSTDA).
Six
projects
According to Nopporn Vayuchote, executive vice-president of the
Betagro Group, six more projects are currently in the pipeline; weighing
apparatus for measuring feed in silos; heating pads for piglets; biogas
production technology; energy-saving inverters for evaporative cooling systems;
and energy-saving cooling pads, which would not only will supply the group but
also for export, to emerging markets; India, Bangladesh, Nepal and to
neighbouring countries, such as Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, with growing
livestock industries.
Cherchai Sinsarng, general manager of B
International & Technology, says Betagro has a history of developing farm
equipment going back more than four years and that by producing its own
equipment, it can save the group more than one million baht a year from imports
and that the current plan is to introduce a minimum of two new farm equipment
products yearly.
Thailand's farm equipment market is currently valued at
about four billion baht (€80 million) yearly with imported products amounting to
around 1.5 billion baht (€30 million). B International currently generates about
400-500 million baht (€8-10 million) sales per year, contributing 1% to
Betagro's revenues, which are expected to top 45 billion baht (€0.9 billion)
this year.
Related
website:
• Betagro
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