Yen Thanh farmers re-raise livestock to serve Lunar New Year

(Baonghean.vn) - To prepare food sources for the Lunar New Year, at this time, livestock farmers in Yen Thanh district are focusing on cleaning barns and re-herding.

Being a purely agricultural district, animal husbandry in Yen Thanh district has always been given attention. Currently, the district has nearly 44,000 buffaloes and cows, 97,000 pigs and tens of thousands of poultry and waterfowl; bringing the proportion of animal husbandry to 44% in the agricultural production sector.

People disinfect and sterilize the barn area before re-herding. Photo: Thai Duong

This year, livestock farmers have faced many difficulties in terms of prices, natural disasters, and diseases. Therefore, in order to quickly stabilize production and provide food for the market at this time, 78 farms and 316 concentrated livestock farms are being prepared by the people to restore livestock herds.

In addition to encouraging the restoration of the herd, the district is focusing on directing communes and towns to step up propaganda work and instruct breeders to implement measures to prevent and control epidemics and clean barns.

Mr. Phan Van Man's family in Nhan Tien hamlet, Tien Thanh commune invested in re-herding 2,000 Minh Du chickens to sell during the Lunar New Year. Photo: Quynh Trang

Accordingly, when re-herding, women proactively coordinated with local veterinary clinics to vaccinate livestock; at the same time, ensuring nutrition to improve resistance, especially preventing hunger and cold during periods of prolonged cold.

Mr. Nguyen Van Duong - Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Yen Thanh district said: With the goal of repopulating the herd to have a food source to serve the market demand at the end of the year, the district has directed that the repopulation must be safe, according to the district's planning, ensuring stable output. Therefore, people do not raise large numbers of pigs en masse, especially paying attention to veterinary work to minimize risks when there are epidemics.

Faced with the current situation of falling pork prices, Mr. Luu Quoc Dung in Tan Thanh commune has invested in raising 200 pigs, hoping to have more income during Tet. Photo: Thai Duong

Along with strengthening the monitoring of herd fluctuations, the district Veterinary Department has also recommended that livestock farmers should process agricultural by-products into animal feed, both reducing investment costs to create a clean food source, gradually stabilizing the livestock industry, and developing in a sustainable direction.

Thai Duong - Quynh Trang