The 'reputation' of Hua Na duck farming village in the mountainous district of Con Cuong

In Hua Na village, Luc Da commune, every afternoon, walking along the road running through the center of the village and the ponds and lakes in the fields of the village, you will see people herding ducks to their pens. Ms. Vi Thi Tu waded into the ditch to check the duck pens. She said that she is currently raising more than 300 meat ducks. "This flock of ducks was expanded from the 100 ducks that I received support from the breed sharing model of the Farmers' Association. Thanks to this support, I and many other households have a new direction for economic development," said Ms. Vi Thi Tu.

Talking more about the method of sharing duck breeds in Hua Na village, Ms. Ngan Thi Son - Village Chief said, from the model of the Provincial Farmers' Association supporting 900 duck breeds for 3 households in early 2024, each household received 300 Quy Lai duck breeds. Households that are "sponsored" by the Provincial Farmers' Association for duck breeds will take care of the duck breeds so that they can develop, and when they reach the stage of selling them for commercial purposes, they are committed to using the profit to buy 200 duck breeds to transfer to other households, which people often jokingly call "the second generation". "With the method of transferring support for duck breeds in steps for "generations", each "step" will reduce 100 duck breeds, so far the source of duck breed support in Hua Na village has been handed over through 3 steps of households", Ms. Son said.

Village Chief Ngan Thi Son was the first pioneer household to implement the project. After about 4 months of taking care of 300 ducks, Ms. Son sold ducks for meat at an average price of 150,000 VND/kg. Each duck weighed about 1.5-2kg. After selling 300 ducks, Ms. Son used some money to buy 200 ducks to transfer to the "second generation" household, Ms. Ngan Thi Hoang's household. The cost of buying ducks depends on the time, fluctuating around 15-20,000 VND/duck.

After 4-5 months of raising, Ms. Ngan Thi Hoang's household harvested and transferred 100 ducklings to Ms. Vi Thi Tu's household. "In this third transfer, 3 households received the breeds, in addition to Ms. Tu, there were also Ha Van Linh and Vi Thi Cau households.

Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Luc Da Commune, Luong Van Tung, said that along with the transferred breeds, households in Hua Na village also participated in bank loans to invest in more breeds, on average each household raises 200-300 ducks/batch. Each year, people raise 2-3 batches. Up to now, most households in Hua Na village raise hybrid ducks, forming a duck-raising village in the direction of green and clean farming, taking advantage of natural food and vegetables in the home garden.

From this movement, ducks raised in Hua Na are gradually becoming "famous" in Luc Da as well as neighboring communes thanks to the delicious quality of their meat, which is well received by the market and traders come to buy from people at home.

On holidays and Tet, people in the villages of Luc Da often organize many meetings, cultural and artistic exchanges, along with bustling culinary activities with traditional dishes of the ethnic groups here.

Ms. Ngan Thi Son - Head of Hua Na village added that the traditional culinary customs of the Thai people cannot lack grilled chicken, pork, sticky rice, fish soup, croissant... and in the past two years, grilled duck has gradually appeared on the dining tables of families, especially during festivals, holidays and Tet. It is worth mentioning that the duck meat is raised by the local people in a green and clean way.