Suburban farms in Vinh City reach value of 25 billion VND/year

(Baonghean.vn) – Vinh City currently has 10 standard farms, and hundreds of livestock and crop farms serving the needs of city residents with a production value of about25billion VND/year

Ho Duc Hong's comprehensive farm, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoa, Hamlet 1, Hung Chinh Commune.

“Up to now, the whole Hung Chinh commune has 16 households doing farm economics in the fields with a total area of ​​30 hectares. The farms are all far from residential areas, so environmental issues are always guaranteed. The commune also recommends that breeders do not use banned substances in livestock farming to ensure the health of consumers,” said Mr. Nguyen Hong Quang - Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Hung Chinh commune.

On an area of ​​4 hectares of low-lying rice fields with low efficiency, the family of Mr. Ho Duc Hong and Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoa in Hamlet 1, Hung Chinh Commune, has converted it into 2.1 hectares of ponds to raise traditional fish such as grass carp, silver carp, and silver carp. The fish raised by Mr. Hong's family are not caught in concentrated areas but instead open a fishing service. With a price of 25,000 VND/ fishing hour/ person, the average daily income is 1 million VND. Each year, Mr. Hong and Ms. Hoa's family earns 250-300 million VND from 2.1 hectares of fish ponds.

The pond bank area is used as a livestock barn and to grow vegetables, fruit trees such as grapefruit, bananas, etc. Currently, Mr. Hong and Ms. Hoa's farm has 4 breeding sows and 1,000 laying ducks. In addition, they raise 3 batches of meat ducks each year, each batch from 1,000 to 1,500 ducks. After deducting the cost of feed and breeding animals, each year Mr. Hong and Ms. Hoa's family earns from 150 to 200 million VND from raising ducks and pigs.

At the same time, on an area of ​​1.5 hectares of rice fields, they combine rice cultivation with fish farming, harvesting 13-15 tons of rice and 1 ton of fish each year. Mr. Hong's family also invested in buying 2 multi-function plows and 1 combine harvester, earning 100 million VND each year from land preparation and rice harvesting services, raising the farm's total income to 700 million VND/year.

In Dong Vinh Ward, there are 40 small and medium-sized farms raising chickens and ducks with a total area of ​​50 hectares, supplying the market with 350,000 chicken and duck eggs per day and hundreds of tons of commercial fish per year.

With a flock of hundreds of thousands of chickens and ducks, on average, every day Mr. Nguyen Duc Luan's egg-laying farm in Yen Due block produces 180,000 eggs per month for the market. After deducting expenses, he earns a net profit of 500 million VND per year.

Mr. Le Van Thang, Trung Nghia hamlet, Dong Vinh ward, has a 1.5 hectare pond specializing in raising fish fry, producing 1 ton of fish fry each year to supply to the Vinh city market and neighboring districts. "Compared to rice production, fish farming is 3-4 times more profitable. The current difficulties are that the canals are damaged and degraded, the river water is increasingly shallow, and in the dry season there is not enough water to supply the pond, which also affects the efficiency of fish farming" - Mr. Thang shared.

Harvesting fish fry at his farmLe Van Thang, Trung Nghia hamlet, Dong Vinh ward.

Up to now, in Vinh city, there are 10 farms that meet the standards of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, with an average area of ​​3.3 hectares/farm; the average value of goods produced/farm is 2,671 million VND (2015). The diverse products contribute a great source of income to the economic development of the people in wards and communes, providing a safe food source for the city market and surrounding areas.

Thanh Tam