New expectations of Ky Son farmers

Farmers' joy
Since receiving support from the Farmers' Association at all levels with 350 native black chickens to build a model of Branch - Professional Association, Mr. Vu Tong Bo and his wife in Muong Long commune have been very happy.

Every day, his family members take care of the chickens with hope. Mr. Vu Tong Po's family, along with two other families, Lau Ba Tu and Lau Ba Xeng, in Muong Long 1 Farmers' Association - Muong Long commune, were invested in and directed by the Provincial and Ky Son District Farmers' Association to establish a professional black chicken raising group under Muong Long 1 Farmers' Association - Muong Long commune, Ky Son.

This is the first Professional Farmers Association in Ky Son district. The scale of the Professional Farmers Association for raising black chickens initially had 6 members participating, the scale of the black chicken flocks of 3 households was over 1,000 chickens.

Mr. Vu Tong Po - Head of the Black Chicken Breeding Association introduces how to select purebred roosters for breeding. Photo: Huyen Thu

Chosen as one of the first households to benefit from joining the Black Chicken Farmer Association at Muong Long 1 Branch, Mr. Vu Tong Po shared: Almost every Mong household raises free-range chickens, but they mainly raise a few to a few dozen chickens to improve their lives. As for large-scale commercial farming, household groups, and professional groups, no one has ever thought of it before.

After being oriented, directed and guided by the Farmers' Association at the provincial, district and Muong Long commune levels to establish a professional Farmers' Association for raising black chickens for participating households, especially oriented activities, his family received great benefits.

However, since joining the group, the households have learned to connect with each other and agree on the way of doing things among the households in the group. If only one person goes to buy medicine and chicken feed at one facility, the price will be cheaper, saving labor; preventing diseases at the same time will be more effective.

“Especially when we join the Professional Farmers Association, the scale of production will be expanded, productivity and product value will be increased; the market will be open. For example, at present, our Black Chicken Farmer Association, if it is time to sell chickens, even hundreds or thousands of black chickens will be sold out in a week. Many individuals, organizations, and businesses come to the farm to buy black chickens, but there are not enough chickens to sell to the market. With this approach, our farmers will soon escape poverty,” Mr. Po happily said.

The process of raising black chickens is applied by Ky Son farmers with scientific advances and proper care techniques for 1 month before letting them graze in the natural environment. Photo: PV

Replicating the model

Nowadays, black chicken has gradually become a popular commodity in the market, a specialty of Ky Son district. Developing large-scale black chicken farming, household groups, and professional Farmers' Associations of black chicken farming is a direction that meets the needs and aspirations and is a highly feasible way to get rich for the people.

Implementing the economic model with the type of Professional Farmers' Association, farmer members will be trained in techniques, have access to a lot of information in sharing skills and experiences in production, animal husbandry, and market search; reduce investment costs, material costs, and means of maintaining production; at the same time, improve productivity and product value to bring high economic efficiency.

Mr. Lang Thanh Luong - Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Ky Son district said that the construction and development of professional Farmers' Associations, orientations for the development of collective economy, cooperatives and cooperatives are being actively implemented by the Farmers' Association of Ky Son district. This model meets the practical and urgent needs in developing agriculture towards a market economy, commodity economy in agriculture and rural areas, contributing to strengthening the organization of the Farmers' Association to become increasingly strong, building new rural areas.

Recognizing the importance and urgency, the Farmers' Association of Ky Son district chose the black chicken farming sector to invest in and directed the construction of a model of a professional Farmers' Association for black chicken farming. Thereby expanding it to other production sectors within the Farmers' Association of the whole district to build professional Farmers' Association branches and groups, contributing to the construction of new rural areas.

Discussing the policy and approach in directing and orienting the organization and construction of branches and groups of the Professional Farmers' Association, Mr. Lang Thanh Luong said: Building branches and groups of the Professional Farmers' Association is a correct policy, which is concretized into Projects and Resolutions of the Farmers' Association at all levels.

This is also a type of core organization of the Farmers' Association to attract and gather members, build a strong Farmers' Association; it is an urgent need of farmer members, more importantly, it aims to orient and contribute to building agriculture towards the market, goods and building new rural areas.

Purebred black chickens of Mr. Vu Tong Po's household in Muong Long commune (Ky Son). Photo: Huyen Thu

In Ky Son district, the Farmers' Association chose to establish a Black Chicken Farmer's Association in Muong Long commune as a starting point. The group consists of 3 households with 6 members. The group has invested in 2 incubators with a capacity of 1,200 eggs/time; the total flock of black chickens in the group is over 1,000, bringing the income of chicken raising households to 60 - 100 million VND/year.

Every year, the Group is organized by the Association at all levels to train and visit to replicate the model of the Professional Farmers Association branch and group. And through the implementation, it shows that the market demand for the specialty of Ky Son black chicken is very large, more than 1000 chickens that the model sold within just 1 week, many orders had to be refused because of insufficient quantity.

In the coming time, the District Farmers' Association will strengthen its direction, orientation, and implementation of the establishment of professional Farmers' Associations at 21 association bases, across all agricultural production sectors. According to the needs of farmers and the orientation of building a market agriculture and commodity agriculture, the District Farmers' Association will focus on the fields of Farmers' Associations raising breeding cows, raising local goats, growing peaches for fruit and branches (Tet peaches), growing three-flower plums, growing medicinal herbs, weaving brocades... This is a type of core organization of the Farmers' Association, at the same time also orienting and developing cooperative economy, the basis for the formation and development of Cooperative Groups, Cooperatives for economic development...
Building and developing the type of professional Farmers' Association branches and groups in the fields of agricultural production in Ky Son district is a correct and urgent direction for farmers to develop the economy, escape poverty and become rich sustainably, build new rural areas, and build a strong Farmers' Association organization, said Mr. Lang Thanh Luong.