Open direction from animal husbandry

(Baonghean) - People in Tuong Duong district mainly raise livestock on a small scale, with low efficiency. However, with the policy of developing livestock, many agricultural economic models in Tuong Duong district have developed in terms of quantity, scale, and efficiency, contributing to job creation and improving people's lives.

Like many households in Tam Bong village, Tam Quang commune, Mr. Lo Van Tien's family used to raise pigs mainly in the form of free-range farming, so the economic efficiency was not high and they were often affected by diseases and caused environmental pollution. After going to many places to learn from experience, Mr. Tien realized that the fragmented way of doing business was only enough to eat, let alone get rich. In 2009, Mr. Tien decided to borrow money from the bank to invest in building industrial pig farms. Thanks to applying knowledge from training courses organized by the Department of Agriculture and the Agricultural Extension Station of Tuong Duong district, his family's pig farming model has increasingly brought high economic efficiency, excluding expenses, the net profit is over 300 million VND/year. Mr. Tien's pig farming model has opened up a new way of doing business for people in the commune. Up to now, the whole Tam Quang commune has more than 40 households raising pigs according to the semi-industrial model. Not only providing experience and supplying breeds, Mr. Tien also buys products for farmers.

Raising livestock is easy at Mr. Vi Duc Tuan's family in Mon village - Thach Giam.

The trend of promoting the value of indigenous livestock breeds with high economic value and easy consumption in the market is being focused on by the government and people of Tuong Duong. Raising indigenous pigs (black pigs) and goats is the direction in economic development of Mr. Vi Duc Tuan, in Mon village, Thach Giam commune. This year is the second year that his family has switched to commercial black pig farming. On average, each year, his family raises 2 litters of pigs, each litter has over 20 pigs for meat and 3 breeding sows. The raised pig products are supplied to the market of Vinh city, Tuong Duong, and also supply pig breeds to communes in the district. Along with raising pigs, he raises over 30 goats, 100 pigeons, and plants 5 hectares of timber forest. Mr. Tuan said that the most favorable thing is that livestock farming takes advantage of available food sources from corn, potatoes, and cassava; indigenous breeds are easy to raise and have high economic value. Mr. Tuan's family's economic model earns over 100 million VND per year.

From his model, the commune and district organized many training sessions for people in the commune to replicate. Mon village, Thach Giam commune has 120 households, previously the number of poor households was over 60%, thanks to economic development in the direction of livestock raising combined with forest planting, the number of poor households has decreased to 23 households. Currently, many households in Thach Giam have also developed livestock raising of native breeds. Mr. Lo Xuan Quyet - Chairman of Thach Giam Commune People's Committee said: "In the area, there are many effective livestock farms such as raising goats, cows, wild pigs, etc. One of the new directions of the Party Committee is to focus on leading the construction of a pilot economic model, then expanding it to the entire commune. In addition, Tuong Duong district has cooperated with the Western Nghe An development project VIE/028 to build a model of "raising Quy ducks". After nearly 1 year of implementing the model, the results have been very positive, farmers have returned to this duck breed. The project is being implemented in 5 communes: Nga My, Yen Hoa, Tam Hop, Luu Kien, Luong Minh with a survival rate of over 90%.

With the active participation of Party Committees and authorities at all levels, especially after the issuance of Directive No. 19 - CT/HU/2012 of the Standing Committee of Tuong Duong District Party Committee on "Strengthening the leadership of Party Committees in building and replicating economic models", Tuong Duong district has had many highly effective models such as: raising wild boars, porcupines, goats, afforestation combined with livestock, raising chickens and agroforestry (VACR). Mr. Lo Thanh Hai - Vice Chairman of Tuong Duong District People's Committee said: "Livestock development is a suitable policy to escape poverty and enrich the remote communes of the district".

Thanh Le