The 'key' to getting rich on the deep land in Quynh Giang

(Baonghean.vn) - After 'land consolidation and plot exchange', Quynh Giang (Quynh Luu) proactively converted ineffective and low-yield crop areas to build a livestock and poultry farm model and brought in high income.

Mr. Thai Dien's family in Hamlet 5, Quynh Giang Commune has asked the Commune People's Committee to change the land use purpose of Cong Am field - a deep, low-yielding rice field - to build a comprehensive livestock farm and request to receive an additional 5,000 m2 in this field to dig a pond to raise fish combined with growing rice.

Households developing farm and family farms in Quynh Giang produce their own seeds to reduce costs.

With his industrious and hard-working nature, he has overcome difficulties in capital and applied science and technology in the right process, so his livestock has grown more and more. Currently, his farm has 2,000 ducks and 2,000 laying hens. In addition, he also planted dozens of fruit trees of various kinds such as guava, longan, etc.

Every year after deducting expenses, his family earns nearly 150 million VND in profit.

As for Mr. Le Van Dung in Hamlet 4, Quynh Giang Commune, on an area of ​​1 hectare of land divided by household and received from the commune in Trai village area, in 2007 he boldly borrowed capital to invest more than 1 billion VND to hire workers, machines to dig fish ponds and plan and build livestock barns to diversify livestock. Every year he raises 1,000 chickens, nearly 2,000 ducks, 6 buffaloes, 13 pigs, and 41 breeding goats.

He has regularly researched and learned from mass media to apply to his family's reality. At the same time, he has linked up with a company that supplies feed for livestock. Thanks to that, his family's livestock and poultry have always grown well. In addition, he has also contracted an additional 10 hectares of the commune's forest to plant cajuput and eucalyptus. With the right investment direction, his family earns over a hundred million dong each year.

High income livestock farming model of Mr. Thai Dien, Hamlet 5, Quynh Giang Commune

The whole Quynh Giang commune has 11 farms and ranches. Thanks to the correct application of scientific and technical processes, care methods, especially in terms of breeding, food, and veterinary work, the farms have achieved high economic efficiency, with an average income of 100 - 150 million VND/farm, contributing to the shift in the local economic structure. In 2015, income from livestock farming in Quynh Giang commune accounted for over 45% of the income value of the agricultural - forestry - fishery sector.

To continue to improve the economic efficiency of the model and develop the locality, Quynh Giang commune actively and synchronously implements technical solutions, disease prevention and environmental protection in livestock farming. At the same time, it mobilizes households to voluntarily exchange land with each other, creating favorable conditions for the formation of concentrated farms.

Utilizing the water surface area to raise ducks and create a food source for fish in Quynh Giang.

Ms. Chu Thi Ngoc - Vice Chairman of Quynh Giang Commune People's Committee said: "In the coming time, Quynh Giang Commune will continue to strengthen propaganda and mobilize people to convert deep-lying land areas and ineffective crops to build a comprehensive farm economic model to increase value on the same unit area. For family farms, they will be encouraged to invest in expansion to increase income. For households in need of capital, the Commune People's Committee will act as a credit guarantee with the bank so that those households can borrow capital to solve on-site employment. The Commune will also increase the opening of training courses to transfer scientific and technical advances to farming households."

From the effectiveness of the models, it shows that this is a sustainable economic development direction for farmers in Quynh Giang. Thereby, contributing to accelerating the process of hunger eradication and poverty reduction in the locality.

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