Tan Ky builds value chain in VietGAP livestock farming
(Baonghean) - Tan Ky is a locality with many advantages to develop large-scale livestock farming. The district is focusing on directing the implementation of the Project "Livestock Development in the period of 2016 - 2020 and the following years". Up to now, many livestock farming models have appeared in the district following VietGAP standards, opening up a new direction for livestock farming development in a cooperative manner.
Efficiency from VietGAP cattle farming
Tan Ky has an agricultural land area of over 27,000 hectares, specializing in the production of sugarcane, corn, rice, corn, grass, peanuts, cassava... with many competitive advantages for developing large-scale livestock farming. Meanwhile, the State has many policies to encourage enterprises, cooperatives, and households to develop agriculture, farmers, and rural areas.
Therefore, in the district, a concentrated commodity production area has been initially formed, such as raising buffaloes and cattle for goods... livestock farms are increasingly developing. Many new breeds of cows with high productivity and quality have been put into production such as foreign breeds: Australian cows, Thai cows... with large weight.
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| Farmers in Tan Ky district are promoting the raising of foreign fattened cattle according to VietGAP standards. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
Mr. Nguyen Cong Trung - Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tan Ty district said: The most successful thing is that the district has built 3 models of cattle breeding cooperatives according to VietGAP process: Nghia Thai Livestock Cooperative; Len Voi - Tan Phu Agricultural Cooperative and Nghia Dong Livestock Cooperative, with 17 member households participating in production. Currently, these cooperatives are operating well, creating trust for members.
Mr. Nguyen Huu Huong - Director of Len Voi Agricultural Cooperative in Tan Phu Commune, said: The Cooperative was established at the end of May 2018, focusing on raising fattened cattle with imported breeds. Immediately after the establishment of the Cooperative, the members had 60 local yellow cows, but to date all members have switched to investing in raising large Australian cows.
Since the Cooperative's fattening beef products were recognized as VietGAP (late 2018), members of the Cooperative have had many advantages in consuming products and promoting livestock farming.
Currently, the cooperative has a slaughterhouse in Hanoi that is associated with the supply and consumption of beef products. According to Mr. Huong, the biggest benefit of participating in the model is that farmers are given detailed instructions from the design of the barn to the selection of breeding animals with clear origins and biosafety.
In addition, the cooperative also ensures product output, directly linking with companies specializing in cattle slaughter in big cities, from which when the cows are ready to be sold, businesses will come to purchase them.
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| Fattening cattle farms in Tan Ky all stock feed by fermenting probiotics from corn and elephant grass. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
In addition to Mr. Thuan's family model, in Tan Ky district, there are nearly 20 households raising buffaloes and cows fattened with foreign breeds in 8 communes with concentrated livestock models according to the linked chain: Tan Phu, Nghia Dong, Nghia Thai, Nghia Hoan, Nghia Binh, Nghia Hop, Giai Xuan and Ky Tan, with 31 households participating.
The form of association is cooperatives, cooperative groups, and household producers link up with companies and individuals to supply seeds and concentrated feed according to contracts and sign contracts to purchase products; for raw and green feed, mainly enterprises, cooperatives, cooperative groups, and individuals produce and purchase from households.
The implementation of the large-scale livestock farming model according to VietGAP process has initially formed a production chain, towards clean, environmentally friendly goods.
Each commune plans a concentrated livestock farming area.
To effectively implement the project, Tan Ky district has proposed 7 groups of solutions to develop the livestock industry in the direction of commodities, bringing high economic efficiency. In particular, focusing on the group of solutions on mechanisms, investment policies, support and incentives; planning livestock development by key regions and communes on the basis of new rural construction planning to arrange suitable land areas for livestock development. Implementing policies to encourage land consolidation to have land to build livestock farms; Solutions on organization and management of production and training; Solutions on disease prevention; Solutions on markets, brands...
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| Tan Ky goat products have been granted a certificate of trademark registration "Tan Ky goat" by the Department of Intellectual Property. Photo: Xuan Hoang |
On that basis, by 2020, Tan Ky will establish 10 VietGAP certified livestock cooperatives or cooperatives in the direction of association. At the same time, Tan Ky will re-plan a number of large-scale concentrated livestock areas, attract and call for investment in building centralized slaughterhouses in planned communes. Apply technical advances in improving and crossbreeding cattle and buffaloes, promoting the development of goat herds to ensure the Tan Ky goat brand.
The Standing Committee of Tan Ky District Party Committee directed the Party Committees of 22 communes and towns to implement the policy of "Building a value chain model for beef cattle products in the period of 2018 - 2020 and development solutions for the following years". Accordingly, each commune plans at least 1 concentrated livestock farming area; builds at least 1 model, each model has at least 7 participating households, each household has at least 7 cattle or more.
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| Graphics: Lam Tung |
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