Satake, Japan’s leading agricultural processing and sorting machine manufacturing company, has announced plans to transfer its technology to a Vietnamese company.

The group said their cooperation agreement with Vietnam’s An Giang Plant Protection Joint Stock Company (AGPPS) will see the latter receive equipment and technical assistance during the four processing stages of drying, polishing, assessing, and managing rice quality.

The agreement aims to help AGPPS independently manufacture modern dryers capable of producing germinated brown (GABA) rice. This rice variety’s abundance of amino acids is beneficial to consumers’ health.

As Asia is the world’s major rice production region, Satake plans to transfer its technology to local rice processing firms.

Last year, Satake won a contract to build a large-scale rice-grinding factory for a Cambodian exporter and another to increase the production capacity of a Thai rice processing company.

(Source: VOV)