Quynh Luu parishioners raise deer and elk and earn billions of dong each year.

Hamlet 8, Quynh Yen commune is a Catholic hamlet with 176 households. Currently, the number of deer in the area accounts for about 60%, the remaining 40% are deer. On average, each household raises 1-2 deer, large households raise from 5-10 deer.

Deer are livestock with high economic value; currently, the whole hamlet 8, Quynh Yen commune has about200 birds. Photo: Le Nhung

According to the people here, deer is a traditional livestock that has been with the people for decades. Although there were times when the price dropped and some localities were no longer interested in raising deer, people still maintained and stabilized the total herd.

Currently, with the selling price of 5.5 - 6 million VND/kg of deer antlers and 9 - 10 million VND/kg of deer antlers, it has brought a significant source of income to breeders.

Like Mr. Phan Van Thang's household (village chief of hamlet 8) only raises 3 selected deer, each time the deer is cut, the weight is from 3.5 - 4 kg/deer. Of these 3 deer, 2 are cut twice a year; Mr. Thang earns nearly 100 million VND.

Currently, each kilogram of deer antlers costs 9 - 10 million VND, and 5.5 - 6 million VND. Photo: Le Nhung

According to Mr. Thang, deer are easy to raise, their food is easy to find, mainly grass, leaves, potatoes, corn... This type of livestock is also less susceptible to diseases than pigs, buffaloes, cows... To have a food source for deer, people have expanded the area of ​​winter crops such as corn and sweet potatoes; this winter alone, hamlet 8 planted 15 hectares of sweet potatoes.

Thanks to the stable maintenance and development of deer herds, the lives of people in hamlet 8, Quynh Yen commune have increasingly developed. Since then, people have improved their family life and contributed to building new rural areas in the locality.

Recently, with support from the province, district and commune, people in hamlet 8 voluntarily contributed 200,000 VND each to build a hamlet cultural house with a total value of 430 million VND...