Fattening cattle in Dien Yen commune

(Baonghean.vn) -In the past 5 years, the fattening cattle industry in Dien Yen commune (Dien Chau) has developed strongly. On average, each family earns about 100 million VND/year thanks to this industry.

The profession of raising fattening cows in Dien Yen commune has existed for decades. At that time, the whole commune only had a few dozen households raising cows, but the number of households participating has increased. In the past 5 years, many households in the commune have considered this profession to be a main source of income for their families. Mr. Pham Huy Cuong, hamlet 3, is one of the people with the longest experience in raising fattening cows in the commune. Since 1998, Mr. Cuong has started to form the idea of ​​buying cows, keeping them in captivity, fattening them and selling them. Up to now, after more than 10 years, his family has accumulated a lot of experience to help the herd grow quickly. Mr. Cuong said: Raising cows for commercial purposes requires confinement, helping the cows eat well and giving them full veterinary vaccinations in order to hope that the herd will grow quickly.

Mr. Cuong currently raises 4 cows. Every 1.5 months, he sells 1-2 cows and continues to buy new cows to raise. Breeding cows are often brought by traders from all over the place such as mountainous districts, U market (Do Luong) or the northern provinces. If raised well, they can gain an average of 20-25 kg/cow per month. “I recently sold a pair of cows for 31 million VND/cow after more than 2 months of raising them. After deducting the cost of breeding and feed, I still made a profit of nearly 20 million VND. After selling, I continue to buy cows to raise and keep doing this until the end of the year, earning nearly 100 million VND,” Mr. Cuong shared.

Currently, in hamlets 1, 2, and 3, many households have become rich thanks to fattening cattle. Mr. Pham Hong Van's household in hamlet 3 is raising 4 beef cattle, and he has just sold 3 of them for 27 million VND/cow. Mr. Van said: The family has been raising fattening cattle for 8 years. Raising fattening cattle is very favorable because it costs very little and the rate of disease is very low. The main food is by-products from agricultural production, bran and grass. In addition, because the animals are raised in captivity, disease rarely occurs. Cow manure is sent to the biogas tank to produce gas and partly to fertilize the fields. Mr. Van analyzed:A cow takes 9 months to give birth to a calf, and it takes another 4-5 months to raise it for sale. At this time, a 5-month-old cow costs about 5-7 million VND/cow. If you deduct the cost of feed and care, the income is not high. Fattening only takes 2-2.5 months to sell. With the current market price of about 100,000 VND/kg of standing cow, the profit is over 1.5-2 million VND/cow/month.

Cows are being gathered to export to Ha Tay market.

Currently, the whole commune has about 650 households raising fattened cows, each household has an average of 3-4 cows, each month Dien Yen commune exports about 1,500 cows, mainly to the Ha Tay market. Mr. Nguyen Duc Chau - Vice Chairman of the Commune People's Committee, said: Every afternoon, 6 cars in the commune gather cows to transport to Ha Tay for sale early the next morning. Each day, about 60 cows are exported, fully veterinary inspected before being taken out of the commune. People raise cows all year round, but the largest number is in the months before Tet. To have enough food for cows, many households have taken advantage of all the vacant land that can be used to grow grass, even along both sides of the road. Although the number of cows coming in and out of the commune is frequent, in the past many years, there has been no outbreak of disease in the commune, the farmers have proactively vaccinated, cared for and strictly followed the regulations of the veterinary industry.

Fattening cattle is bringing in quite high income for many households. This is the right direction for livestock development of the commune, contributing to changing the face of the countryside to develop more sustainably.

Pham Bang