04/08/2016
After nearly 20 years of operation in Việt Nam, FrieslandCampina has contributed significantly to community through its nutrition and education programs in order to improve nutritional knowledges as well as to provide access to better education for future generations.
FrieslandCampina Việt Nam (FCV) is one of the companies receiving the Việt Nam Environmental Award for its excellent achievements in environmental protection during the period 2011 - 2015. The Environment Magazine had a talk with Mr. Arnoud van der Berg - General Director of FCV about the operation attaching to environmental protection activities.
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| Mr. Arnoud van den Berg - FCV’s General Director of receiving the Việt Nam Environmental Award for its excellent achievements in environmental protection from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment |
Congratulations the FCV’s achievements! Could you please share the meaning of the Việt Nam Environmental Award to your company?
Mr. Arnoud van den Berg: This award has a great meaning to FCV and is an endorsement of FCV’s exertions in implementing activities for the benefits of society and communities as well as contributing to sustainable and green growth over the years. At FCV, environmental protection is always our top priorities.
Could you please share the purposes and meaning of the agreement to corporate in a joint program titled “For a green environment in Việt Nam” with the Vietnam Environment Administration (VEA)?
Mr. Arnoud van den Berg: Over the years, Việt Nam has reached many socio-economic achievements regarding the progress of innovation and integration into the global economy. However, the economic development, industrialization and modernization have had a negative impact on the natural resources and environment of Việt Nam. Taking this into account and wishing to help society to improve the living environment for the current population as well as for future generations, the VEA and FCV signed an agreement to corporate in a joint program titled “For a green environment in Vietnam”.
The agreement focuses on education and raising public awareness of the need for environmental protection in Vietnam. This will be done by organizing contests, extracurricular education for the youth and activities to promote the awareness. FCV and the VEA will also encourage organizations and individuals to contribute to the protection of the environment and urge for more drastic action towards environmental protection and reducing harmful activities in Việt Nam.
FCV always has a strong sense of responsibility towards the community. The company believes in the importance of community activities and in connecting partners and constituents of the value chain with the community to carry out social programs, reduce negative impact on the environment, enhance economic benefits, shared values and the competitiveness of each member in the community.
FCV’s business strategy to associate specific environmenal protection purposes is always highly appreciated. Can you explain more details of your company’s environmental protection solutions over the years?
Mr. Arnoud van den Berg: All FCV’s facilities are well equipped to treat wastewater, solid waste, dust, exhaust fumes and noise. Those systems effectively treat domestic and industrial solid waste, solid waste and harmful waste. They are designed and built on advanced microbial technology and have a daily treatment capacity of 2,400 m3. Its systems are also able to separate rainwater from production wastewater. Therefore, wastewater from the factories always meets environmental standards such as grade A of the QCVN 40:2011 (which specifies the highest standards for treating wastewater for daily use) of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment. Originating from the awareness of cooperate social responsibility, FCV is strictly compliance with the regulations on environmental protection as well as on other sectors.
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FrieslandCampina Việt Nam is a joint venture company between Protrade (Bình Dương province) and Royal FrieslandCampina - a leading dairy company in the Netherlands with more than 140 years of experience over the world. FrieslandCampina has set up business in Việt Nam for nearly 20 years, supplied more than 1.5 billion high quality milk units every year with many favorite brands such as Dutch Lady, Friso, Yomost, Fristi. Its factories in Bình Dương and Hà Nam are invested with the most advance technology, automated management system, completed sewage treatment system, saving-energy measures and using clean energy sources to protect environment. |
In addition, FCV has a lot of programs to cooperate with farmers. Could you please specify one of outstanding programs with farmers?
Mr. Arnoud van den Berg: The Dairy Development Program (DDP) has been initiated since 1996 which makes endless efforts to enable farmers to develop dairy farming becoming a sustainable agriculture business and ensure the high quality of raw milk. Since the first day of collecting 30kg fresh milk of 15 farmers, FCV has currently purchased over 310 tons of fresh milk of more than 4,500 farmers across the country. In 2014, FCV collected 104,507 tons of fresh milk compared with 82,825 tons in 2013. As a dairy company, FCV is interested in developing dairy zones initiatively. It establishes partnership with farmers who considering raising dairy cows, provides them with access to technical knowledge and preferential loan, connects them to the dairy cattle feed supply chain. These helps maximize the farmers’ values into FCV’s supply chain and increase their income while constantly improving quality of raw milk.
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| Pilot fishing pond with treated wastewater |
It is the fact that small dairy households face many issues of dairy cattle feed supply chain, husbandry technical advice, veterinary treatment, developing and establishing procurement and control systems to ensure good milk quality as well as the consumption of fresh milk at competitive prices. FCV recognizes the need to solve these issues and therefore we support farmers through the DDP.
FCV has connected the dairy farmers into the surrounded groups. At the house of the group leader, chilling tanks are installed. The members will transport fresh milk to chilling tank within 45 minutes. Thanks to the on-site quality control equipments, the milk quality of each household is examined before pouring into the tank. Hence, each farm is completely responsible for the fresh milk quality. Simultaneously, we connect the dairy farmers to the livestock technical advice and veterinary treatment services, to the dairy cattle feed supply chain at lower prices. This is a strong foundation of agricultural cooperation in order to develop to the large scale production, a new partnership model based on voluntary, transparency and efficiency■
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