Vietnam Agribusiness Group Orders 12 Silage Harvesters For SE Asia - Taizyagromachine.com

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A large Vietnamese agribusiness group running multi-business operations across Vietnam, Cambodia, and the wider Mekong region ordered the following for soft-stemmed grass harvesting:

9 sets of the 1.3m silage harvester (with basket and tires)
3 sets of the 2.0m silage harvester (without basket, with tires)

The order was driven by four hard requirements:

>4 m spray height on the 2.0m version
Factory-fitted tires for both models
Verified container-loading plan for 12 sets
Strict contract with clause-level penalty terms

All 12 sets went through pre-shipment testing with the customer’s own grass samples before being loaded into two 40HQ containers.

This case is worth reading if you are a large-scale forage operation sizing a harvester fleet, exporting agricultural machinery into Southeast Asia, or managing a multi-country farm business that needs standardized equipment across sites.

forage silage harvester preparation

silage harvesting machine in the factory — forage silage harvester preparation

Customer Background: A Multi-Business Agribusiness Group in the Mekong

The customer is one of Vietnam’s mid-tier diversified agribusiness groups, headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City with operational farms and processing facilities in several regions. The group runs three core businesses:

A 2,000-head commercial dairy and beef operation
A 1,500-hectare hybrid forage plantation that supplies fresh-cut grass and silage to internal livestock operations and external dairy customers
A contract harvesting service for neighboring farms during the peak March-July and September-November cutting windows

The dominant crop across all three businesses is soft-stemmed grass—primarily Pakchong 1 (a Thai-bred Napier × Pearl millet hybrid), Mulato II (a Brachiaria hybrid), and local VA-06 elephant grass.

Why 9 Sets of 1.3m + 3 Sets of 2.0m Silage Harvester (Not a Single Model)

The customer’s farms are not uniform. The 2,000-head dairy in Long An sits on flat, terraced paddy fields with 200-500 m runs between plots. The Cambodian plantation in Svay Rieng is on 1 km long rows of flat red soil. The contract harvesting service operates on third-party farms that range from 5 to 200 hectares. A single harvester model would either over-spec for the small farms or under-deliver on the large plantations.

The final order reflects that split.

9 sets of 1.3m with basket: deployed across the smaller Vietnamese dairy farms and as backup units for the contract harvesting service. The 1.3m cutting width is ideal for the 5-30 hectare farm plots that make up most of the contract work. The integrated 1.5 m³ basket lets a single operator harvest and discharge into a trailing forage wagon without a second driver.
3 sets of 2.0m without basket: dedicated to the large Cambodian plantation and the largest Vietnamese plots (50+ hectare blocks). The 2.0m cutting width covers more ground per pass, and the open-discharge (no basket) design with a >4m spray height feeds chopped material directly into tractor-pulled forage trailers running alongside. This is the configuration for throughput-first operations where a separate transport tractor is always on hand.

silage harvester with basket and tires

forage harvester without basket with tires — silage harvester with basket and tires

Machine Specifications (As Built and Tested)

Silage Harvester Machine 1.3m with basket with tires — machine specifications

Silage Harvester Machine 2.0m without basket with tires — machine specifications

Four Hard Requirements the Customer Insisted On

The customer’s procurement team came to the negotiation with four non-negotiable items. None of them are unusual for a Southeast Asian large fleet, but together they ruled out most of the cheaper alternatives the group had been considering.

Spray height above 4 m on the 2.0m open-discharge version. Soft-stemmed grass in the Mekong region regularly grows to 3-4 m between cuts. The discharge chute on a standard 2.0m harvester typically tops out at 3-3.5 m, which causes the chopped grass to fall back onto the uncut row and clog the cutter bar. Taizy re-engineered the discharge spout to lift above 4 m so chopped material lands cleanly inside the trailing wagon, not on the standing crop.
Factory-fitted tires on both models, with documented load rating. The group’s contract harvesting service moves between farms on small paved roads and unpaved farm tracks. A harvester without tires must be transported on a flatbed, doubling the labor cost. Taizy fitted heavy-duty pneumatic tires with documented load ratings (1,200 kg per tire on the 1.3m, 900 kg per tire on the 2.0m) so each unit can be towed behind a pickup or driven at low speed on private farm roads.
A verified container-loading plan for 12 sets. Twelve harvesters do not fit in a single 40HQ container, and the customer wanted to know exactly how many containers were needed, how the machines would be secured, and what the loaded dimensions looked like before signing. Taizy provided a packing list, a 3D loading diagram, and a sea-fastening plan for two 40HQ containers. Each container was loaded with 4-6 harvesters plus their basket components, tire sets, spare blades, and the PTO drivelines in dedicated steel-frame cradles.
Strict contract terms with performance clauses and penalty-recovery language. The group’s standard procurement contract includes a performance bond, a delivery penalty for late shipment, an acceptance-test clause tied to a 50-hour operating benchmark, and a spare-parts availability commitment. Taizy’s sales and legal team negotiated the final contract over three rounds, with all four clauses kept in their original form.

Pre-Shipment Testing With the Customer’s Own Grass

The contract required that one unit of each model run a pre-shipment test on soft-stemmed grass before the full batch was crated.

Test set-up: One 1.3m unit (with basket) and one 2.0m unit (without basket), each coupled to a 90 HP test tractor on the Taizy demo field. The grass was stacked in windrows matching the customer’s normal field layout.
Test duration: Complete grass crushing and recycling process per machine.
Customer’s acceptance criteria: Cutting height uniform within ±2 cm, no plugging at the discharge chute on the 2.0m open version, basket discharge cycle on the 1.3m under 90 seconds, no belt slippage under continuous load.
Result: Both machines passed all four criteria. The 2.0m’s >4m spray height was confirmed with a measuring pole at the discharge arc—the chopped material cleared the standing crop by 1.2 m at the closest point and landed cleanly inside the test forage wagon.

The customer’s engineering representative signed the pre-shipment acceptance form within 24 hours. The remaining 11 units were crated the following week.

corn silage harvester factory test

Container Loading and Delivery

Twelve harvesters, plus baskets, tires, spare blades, and PTO drivelines, were loaded into two 40HQ containers using a pre-approved loading plan.

Container	Loaded with	Marudio
40HQ #1	6 × 1.3m with basket + tire sets + spare parts	Cat Lai Port, HCMC (Vietnam)
40HQ #2	3 × 1.3m + 3 × 2.0m without basket	Cat Lai Port, HCMC (Vietnam)

Container loading plan and final destination

Shipping route: Qingdao → Singapore transshipment → Cat Lai (HCMC). Total transit time: 12-18 days depending on transshipment.
Sea fastening: Each harvester was bolted to a welded steel-frame cradle with chain tie-downs to the container’s D-rings. Tires, baskets, and spare parts were palletized and strapped in the upper layers.
Customs handling: The customer handled Vietnamese import clearance with Taizy’s commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading, and certificate of origin. Two containers cleared without inspection holds.
Inland transport: All inland trucking was on standard 40-footer flatbeds.

solution to loading silage harvester

silage harvester in loading process — solution to loading silage harvester

Customer Outcome

Within 30 days of arrival, all 12 sets were commissioned across the group’s three businesses.

Three months in, the customer reports the following.

Combined fleet throughput: ~28-32 hectares per day across all 12 sets in a typical cutting window, replacing the older European fleet’s 12-15 hectares per day at lower operating cost.
Spare parts consumption: Only two C-1575 belts replaced across the fleet in three months. The customer ordered a five-year spare parts kit (belts, blades, bearings, PTO yokes) with the original shipment and has not yet needed it.
Operator feedback (translated from Vietnamese): “The 1.3m with basket is what we use 80% of the time. The 2.0m without basket is faster, but you need a second tractor to follow. The >4m spray height on the 2.0m is the difference between a clean wagon fill and a clogged cutter bar.”

The group is now evaluating Taizy’s silage baler-wrapper for the next upgrade cycle, to package the chopped material at the Svay Rieng plantation into wrapped bales for export to Thailand and southern Vietnam.

Is a Custom Silage Harvester Right for Your Operation?

If you are sizing a harvester fleet for tropical soft-stemmed grass, share your daily tonnage target, the farm plot size distribution, your existing tractor fleet, and your destination ports. Taizy’s engineering team will return a configuration quote with a 3D container-loading plan, a pre-shipment test schedule, and a draft contract matching your procurement terms within 5 working days.

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