TH Group develops the world's best dairy cow embryos in Vietnam

(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of March 10, TH Group held a ceremony to announce achievements in embryo technology to develop the world's best high-yielding dairy cow breed in Vietnam and received the Golden Cup for organic dairy farms for community health.

On February 17, 2015, TH Group initiated the production of organic fresh milk according to European and American standards in Vietnam.

In 2015, TH converted the fields to grow food crops according to European and American organic standards, which does not use genetically modified plants, pesticides, or chemical fertilizers, and the grazing time for cows is also guaranteed according to organic standards.

On September 27, 2016, TH farm welcomed the first organic calf in Vietnam. From now on, TH farm officially has a line of organic raw milk.

Delegates attending the ceremony. Photo: Duc Anh

Director of the Department of Animal Husbandry Hoang Thanh Van highly appreciated the fact that TH will proactively produce and purebred high-yielding cows originating from the US to have a high-yielding cow herd with outstanding productivity. Photo: Duc Anh

On October 26, 2016, Control Union (Netherlands) representative certified all processes from pasture to livestock to meet European and American organic standards. It is expected that by the end of March 2017, TH Group will have achieved organic certification for its production chain and organic products.

With this process, the Department of Animal Husbandry assessed that TH Group has made its mark as the first unit to produce organic milk, the only unit to convert cows and grasslands to livestock and farming according to European and American organic standards to produce TH true MILK organic milk on Vietnamese land.

The technical director of TH farm confirmed that TH has mastered the technology of sex-separated frozen embryo transfer. Photo: Duc Anh

In parallel with insemination of HF dairy cows with frozen dairy cow semen, TH Group has taken a bold and groundbreaking step. That is, proactively importing frozen embryos of high-yielding dairy cows, applying sex-separated embryo transfer technology to create a high-yielding dairy cow herd with outstanding productivity of 12-13 thousand liters/cycle/year (12-13 tons/cycle/year), double the normal productivity, equivalent to the world's high-yielding dairy cow herds such as the US and Israel.

Up to now, TH Group is the only livestock unit in Vietnam that has mastered this technology.

The Chairman of the Vietnam Organic Agriculture Association welcomed the fact that TH True MILK Group has approached international organic standards to practice good organic food production on Vietnamese land. Photo: Duc Anh

On December 30, 2016, TH Group donated male calves born from this technology to the Central Large Livestock Breeding Center, Animal Husbandry Institute for breeding with the goal of producing frozen semen to serve the program of improving the domestic dairy herd in Vietnam.

The achievements of TH Group are of special significance to the domestic dairy farming industry because they will promote the program of selecting and improving dairy cow herds nationwide through the use of semen from male breeding bulls born from TH farm embryo technology; improve the ability to withstand Vietnam's harsh weather, and breed calves that can adapt well to environmental conditions in Vietnam.

Awarding the Golden Cup of Organic Dairy Farm for Community Health. Photo: Duc Anh

Organic dairy cows are converted from regular dairy cows at TH farm. Photo: Duc Anh

On this occasion, TH Group also received the Golden Cup for Organic Dairy Farm for Community Health, marking its position as the first and only enterprise to convert dairy cows and organic pastures to European and American standards on Vietnamese land.

Phu Huong - Duc Anh