The farmer turned an old brick kiln into the largest livestock farm in the region.

Currently, his chicken farm is raising the second batch of over 3,000 chickens, which are ready to be sold. Photo: Thai Hien

Returning to his hometown, after learning that the locality had a Cho Ke land in village 7, Linh Son commune, which used to be an old handmade brick kiln that had been demolished and left fallow, Mr. Hao asked the locality to bid for 2.7 hectares of this land at a price of 18 million VND/year to build a farm. With the accumulated capital, he borrowed an additional 80 million VND from the farmer support fund and his brothers to invest in renovating the barren, uneven land to make a chicken farm and dig a pond to raise fish.

The initial days were really difficult, arduous, lacking capital, experience and human resources. However, with his youth, hard work, determination and learning, he succeeded. The first batch of chickens he tried to raise was 1,000 hybrid fighting chickens, after 3 months he sold 2.5 tons, he earned 180 million VND, after deducting expenses he earned nearly 50 million VND.

According to Mr. Hao's experience, to raise chickens effectively, he has applied bio-safety chicken farming, using bedding made of rice husks or sawdust and probiotics. In addition, he also focuses on disease prevention and control and cleaning the barn.

To keep the barren land profitable, Mr. Hao also invested in digging 1.4 hectares of ponds to raise fish. Photo: Thai Hien

When he had income, to keep the barren land profitable, Mr. Hao also invested in digging 1.4 hectares of ponds to raise fish using the water layering method to take advantage of food such as grass carp, silver carp, tilapia for short-term use and long-term feeding. Currently, his chicken farm is raising the second batch of over 3,000 chickens that are ready to be sold. With this number of chickens, Mr. Hao estimates that he will be able to sell 7.5 tons of chickens, earning a profit of nearly 150 million VND.
Mr. Pham Van Quy - Chairman of the People's Committee of Linh Son Commune (Anh Son) said: Although only over 30 years old, but with diligence, hard work, daring to think and dare to do, Mr. Pham Kim Hao has turned the field that was previously a brick kiln, causing environmental pollution into a livestock farm that brings high economic efficiency in the commune.

Not only is he bold in economic development, Mr. Pham Kim Hao is also known as a village chief, a young, dynamic and enthusiastic farmer association leader in movements and activities of the locality as well as of organizations. Recently, his model has become a place for farmers in the region to visit and learn from each other's experiences.