Building a "mansion", buying a billion-dollar car thanks to raising pigs in cold pens

Mr. Nguyen Van Vuong, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Le Thuy district (Quang Binh province) proudly shared.

One day at the end of the year, Mr. Nguyen Van Vuong took me to visit the closed pig farm of Mr. Nguyen Xuan Vu and Mr. Nguyen Van Trung in Le Xa village, Mai Thuy commune, Le Thuy district. That farm is located in the middle of a cajuput forest far from the residential area, with an area of ​​1.2 hectares.

Mr. Vu is checking his pigs before selling them.

Mr. Vu said: Previously, he was a farmer specializing in rice and forest planting. But after the big storm in 2013, more than 2 hectares of acacia plantation of his family were almost lost. The rice grown was just enough to eat, not much left. As for Trung, who was a construction engineer, used to work for construction companies everywhere but life still faced many difficulties.

Struggling to change his business direction, after researching everywhere, in 2015, Mr. Vu discussed with his younger brother, Mr. Trung, to contribute capital to open a livestock farm. In February 2015, the closed barn with a cooling system had an area of ​​1,600m²The construction of the two brothers' house began in February 2016 and was completed at a cost of 1.2 billion VND.

According to the design, the pig pen has a capacity of 1,200 pigs. Each year, the farm only raises 2 crops, each crop is about 5 months, then it is cleaned and left empty for about 1 month to ensure safe isolation. Mr. Vu said: "Our pig farming criteria is to ensure disease safety and not cause environmental pollution. Therefore, we raise pigs according to VietGAP standards, building cold barns according to a closed process.

Currently, the pig barn has a cooling system, the temperature in the barn fluctuates at 27 - 30⁰C. In addition, to ensure the environment, we also invested 200 million VND to build a biogas system. The manure is filtered through a rough pit, then the air suction machine through the filter tank can be used to meet the electricity needs of the farm. The fresh manure pit will be composted with leaves to decompose...

Thanks to that, even though the farm is raised in large numbers, there is almost no foul smell when entering the farm premises. The criteria for breeding pigs must be 5 weeks old, fully vaccinated and have a veterinary quarantine certificate before entering the barn.

During the farming process, they ensure complete disinfection of people entering and leaving the farm with an automatic disinfection system right at the gate. There are always 3 technical staff in charge of feed, veterinary and livestock farming living on site to support them throughout the farming season.

Normally, pigs sold in whole pens will be purchased by businesses in Da Nang. With the current price of 42,000 VND/kg of live pigs, the farm earns a profit of over 1.2 billion VND/2 crops per year.

To achieve the success they have today, Nguyen Xuan Vu and Nguyen Van Trung have gone through many difficulties and challenges. That was when they finished building the barn and ran out of capital to buy piglets and feed. To solve this problem, they borrowed 4 red books from neighbors and 2 red books from their family to borrow from the bank. At the end of 2016, a big flood caused the death of 350 pigs in the farm.

In early 2017, the price of pigs dropped dramatically, causing farmers everywhere to be devastated. Mr. Vu recalled: “During the most difficult times, we received attention and support from the district leaders, both materially and spiritually.

Of which, the district supported us with 60 million VND twice and called on businesses and slaughterhouses in the province to consume the products. Thanks to raising pigs, Mr. Vu and Mr. Trung were able to build 2 new spacious houses with 2.4 billion VND and buy a new car worth nearly 1.1 billion VND.

Thanks to pig farming, Mr. Vu was able to build a nice house and buy a billion-dollar car.

Mr. Trung shared: “Developing chain-based livestock farming will help farms be more proactive in consuming products.” Currently, the provincial Agricultural and Fisheries Extension Center is supporting farms to implement a model of chain-based clean pig farming and consumption.

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Le Thuy district also supported the construction of a slaughterhouse to help the farm complete this closed process. It is expected that by early 2019, the slaughterhouse will be completed and put into use.

At that time, the farm will release clean pork products to the market. In addition, Mr. Vu is also researching and learning about dry manure presses to take advantage of composted manure to supply to agricultural production households in the area.