Ten major agricultural and rural projects in Taixing city – administered by Taizhou in East China's Jiangsu province – broke ground on Aug 10.
They involved ventures in smart agriculture and integrated and stable industrial production, among other things.
The projects will involve a combined investment of 1.51 billion yuan ($207.22 million) and eight of them will cost over 100 million yuan each.
One will be located in Taixing's Binjiang town. A vegetable sprouts farm and processing plant costing 150 million yuan, on completion it will produce 50,000 metric tons of sprouts annually.
Binjiang town's modern agriculture park. [Photo/WeChat account:txfabu]
It is expected to generate revenue of 120 million yuan annually and provide 210 jobs.
Three of the projects will settle in Huangqiao town. One smart agriculture plant costing 280 million yuan will construct glass greenhouses, soil-free cultivation systems, agricultural automation management systems and solar power generation systems.
Elsewhere, a pig by-product centralized processing park costing 130 million yuan will establish fully automated production lines, aiming to process 300,000 tons of pig by-products annually.
The establishment of the pig by-product centralized processing park is expected to promote the transformation and upgrading of the traditional pig by-products industry in Huangqiao town towards intelligent, digital and green development, said Jiang Yigong, a city official.