US envoy visits MGI seed crushing mill

US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas visited Sonargaon Seeds Crushing Mills, a sister concern of the Meghna Group of Industries (MGI) situated around 40 kilometres southeast of the capital, yesterday.

Haas had a look at soybean meal, rapeseed cake, extruded full-fat soyabeans, soybean hulls, liquid and powder lecithin (derived from soybean and used as an emulsifier) and lecithin oil (a mixture of fats essential for human body cells) produced in the factory.

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He was accompanied by Megan Francic, agricultural attaché at the US embassy in Dhaka, Tahmina Mostafa, a director of the MGI, Taif Bin Yousuf, senior executive director, and other top officials of the MGI, said a press release.

The MGI embarked on its seed crushing business in 2010 establishing Meghna Seeds Crushing Mills. Afterwards, it established the Sonargaon factory. Together the mills have a processing capacity of 7,500 tonnes per day.