Raising sows combined with Taiwanese fish in Quynh Luu

(Baonghean.vn) - With 70 foreign sows, the farm includes pigs, fish, and vegetables.Compiled by Mr. Ho Tat Quy in Quynh Doi commune, Quynh Luu districtfor profit of nearly 1 billion VND/year.

Sows are raised in a clean environment, ensuring hygiene and disease prevention.

Mr. Ho Tat Quy's pig farm is located on the agricultural land of the commune, nearly 2km from the residential area. This is a suitable location for developing livestock farming.

We met him while he was operating an automatic bathing machine for the pigs in hot weather. The modern closed barn system, the barn is installed with iron pipes, has an automatic bathing system and a schedule to monitor the health and reproductive time of the sows.

Mr. Quy shared that he used to work as a construction worker and then a builder. One time, when he visited a friend in the North, he saw that his friend's pig farm was developing strongly. After being introduced to effective pig farming methods by his friend, he returned to his hometown to open a pig farm to develop the economy.

With little experience in pig farming provided by a friend, Mr. Quy contracted nearly 1 hectare of land in an ineffective rice-producing area of ​​the locality to convert to livestock development. At the end of 2011, he borrowed money from the bank, and his brothers and sisters together with the amount of 1.4 billion VND saved invested in building barns and buying 36 sows from CP Vietnam Livestock Joint Stock Company to raise, this is a very prestigious and high-quality sow breed from Thailand.

Taiwanese Duroc boar breed costs 35 million VND/pig

After 1 year of raising, 36 sows started to reproduce; the pigs gave birth to 2 litters/year, each litter had 12 pigs. In the first year, the herd of foreign sows gave birth to 792 pigs, all of which were sold to the villagers and traders. His income from pork and breeding pigs reached hundreds of millions of VND/year.

Realizing that breeding sows was effective, at the end of 2015, he increased the number of sows to 70 and invested 70 million VND to buy 2 high-quality Taiwanese Duroc boars for breeding.

Thanks to proper care and technology in raising pigs, his family's pigs always grow quickly and rarely get sick.

“In order for pigs to grow healthily and quickly, the important step is to fully vaccinate them against livestock diseases. Ensure clean barns so that pigs can grow quickly. The motto of the family's barns is "warm in winter, cool in summer"; use industrial feed produced by reputable and quality companies," Mr. Quy shared.

Talking about the output for breeding pigs, Mr. Quy said that with 1,540 breeding pigs, he sold about 700 pigs to local people, traders came to buy about 400 pigs, and his family raised 300 pigs to sell for meat.

The farm creates good breeds for local breeders.

Mr. Ho Quang Tuan - Chairman of the People's Committee of Quynh Doi Commune, Quynh Luu District said: The profession of raising foreign sows of Mr. Ho Tat Quy's family is a large model in the locality and the whole Quynh Luu District. The raising process ensures the environment and does not cause pollution. In addition to selling breeding pigs to other places, he also provides quite large breeding pigs for local people to develop livestock farming, many pig raising households have also become well-off.

In addition to raising pigs, Mr. Ho Tat Quy also digs ponds to raise tilapia. Snakehead fish brings in 300 million VND/year in profit.

With a standard farming process, in March 2015, the Nghe An Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Quality Management awarded a certificate of food safety qualified facility to the pig farm of Mr. Ho Tat Quy's family.

Currently, Mr. Quy is raising 26,000 monosex tilapia of Taiwanese breed. Loan and 12,000 snakehead fish.

Viet Hung