Giving poor households opportunities to develop from cattle and buffalo farming

(Baonghean.vn) -Nghe An Provincial Rural Development Department and People's CommitteeThe Fatherland Front of Quy Hop district supports poor households in Do Luong and Quy Hop with buffalo and cow breeds to develop livestock farming.

* Afternoon of November 28,Nghe An Province Rural Development Department presented support calves to 24 households in Minh Son Commune (Do Luong).This is the Sind-crossbred heifer breeding model project under the project to support production development, livelihood diversification and poverty reduction model replication.

This time, 24 poor households, near-poor households, and households that have just escaped poverty in 2017 were supported with calves. Each calf is worth 15 million VND, the total value is 380 million VND.

People's joy when receiving support, Photo: Thuy Hang

This program is funded by the National Target Program on Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction. In Nghe An province, there are 6 districts receiving calf support, including: Hung Nguyen, Nam Dan, Nghi Loc, Yen Thanh, Dien Chau, Do Luong. Each district has 1 commune receiving calf support.

Thu Hang(Do Luong Radio)

* In order to help poor households have the strength and assets to overcome hunger and reduce poverty, in November 2017,Quy Hop District Fatherland Front Committeehas drawn from the district's "Day for the Poor" fund a total of 220 million VND to support poor households with special difficulties to buy breeding buffaloes and cows.

With the support of 10 million VND/head, poor households have purchased breeding buffaloes and cows to raise.

With the support of 10 million VND/head, poor households have purchased breeding buffaloes and cows for raising. The communes supported from this fund to buy buffaloes and cows include: Chau Thai commune with 5 cows, Chau Ly with 4 cows, Chau Thanh with 5 cows, Chau Dinh with 5 cows and Yen Hop with 3 cows for a total of 22 cows.

These are poor households lacking production capital but having labor and ensuring conditions to develop livestock farming to escape poverty in the coming time.

Thu Huong

(Kuihe Radio)