Bringing ‘green growth’ to the livestock sector
(VAN) Tay Ninh is promoting livestock development towards 'green growth' to ensure sustainability and efficiency in restructuring the agricultural sector.
Various policies to support the livestock sector
According to Tay Ninh Department of Agriculture and Rural Development , the province has 11,000 buffaloes, 100,000 cows, over 13,500 dairy cows, over 197,000 pigs and 7,150,000 poultry. The husbandry structure is continuing to shift from small-scale, non-biosecure, low-efficient livestock production to bio-secure farm-scale production. Rates of farm raising are as follows: pigs 83%, buffaloes: 9.1%, beef cattle: 9.1%, dairy cows: 87.3%, poultry: 60.5%.
The whole province currently has 67 VietGAHP-certified breeding facilities, 83 establishments raising chickens, ducks, pigs and cows certified to be disease-free; Duong Minh Chau is a district certified as a breeding area free of avian flu and newcastle in chickens and 83 chicken, duck, pig and cow breeding facilities are certified to be disease-free.
In the past, the locality has issued many policies to support farming households, support loan interest to encourage businesses to invest in agriculture, the restructuring of livestock herds has received real attention to implementation. As a result, by now, the province has supported 9,370 doses of piglet semen to households raising sows with a cost of 468.5 million VND; for artificial insemination, 10,700 crossbred cows with high-quality beef breeds such as Brahman, Angus, Charolaise… Carried out 61 biogas projects and organic padding for pig raising, 32 bio-gas projects on treatment of waste in cow breeding, with a cost of billions of VND…
However, production value of the livestock sector is still low, not proportionate to the development potential; livestock proportion accounts for 16.6% of the province’s total agricultural production value, relatively low compared to the national average (at about 30%);
Mr. Duong Quoc Hoang – Head of Duong Minh Chau District Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Station said that there are 138 farms in the district, of which, 20 livestock establishments and 11 communes, towns are recognized as establishments free of avian flu and newcastle diseases, 34 establishments were certified as VietGAHP standard breeding facilities.
“In order to develop the livestock sector, it is necessary to first encourage farmers to switch from small-scale livestock production to farms and enclosed farms; apply synthetically and synchronously technical measures in biosafety livestock production. In addition, functional agencies and localities need to strengthen inspection of livestock facilities, control transportation and slaughter… “, Mr. Hoang said.
Introducing ‘green growth’ to the livestock sector
In order to restructure the livestock sector towards green growth; improve productivity, quality and efficiency as expressed in value and profit; improve competitive advantages of the product lines; while focusing on meeting social requirements…, Tay Ninh Provincial People’s Committee has just issued a plan to implement the livestock development strategy for the province, in the period of 2021 – 2030, with a vision towards 2045.
The objective is to promote livestock development, transforming livestock production into a production industry with a significant proportion in the agricultural sector, shifting from small-scale, non-biosecure and non-environment-secure livestock production towards production in concentration, farm, industry with gradual livestock modernization.
With the aim that, by 2030, the province can develop herds of pigs, beef cattle and dairy cows in the direction of industrial farms, high-tech farms with high-yielding breeds and potential local breeds.
In which, a stable herd of pigs is at about 800,000 heads (including: 70,000 sows, 90% of the pigs are raised on farms); stable herd of beef cattle at 121,200 heads (about 30% of which are farm-raised); dairy cow herd reaching 28,800 heads, developi a new herd of dairy cows in connection with dairy product processing and consumption factories in advantageous districts such as Tan Chau, Tan Bien.
Particularly, the total herd of buffaloes will be reduced from 9,500 heads in 2025 to 9,300 heads in 2030 due to the narrowing of grassland area, at the same time, improve livestock productivity and shift from extensive breeding to farm raising, about 10% of which are raised on small-scale farms, the rest of the buffalo herd is raised by households.
To develop poultry production in the direction of industry and high technology. Maintain 12 million chickens (about 70% of which are raised using industrial methods) and about 800,000 waterfowls (about 40% of which are raised using industrial methods)… maintain the scale of goats and sheep at the scale of 7,000 heads; improve productivity and switch from extensive livestock farming to 90% farm animal husbandry by 2030. At the same time, build at least 2 disease-free breeding zones at district level by 2025 and 3 at district level by 2030.
With a vision towards 2045, the level and production capacity of the province’s livestock sector will reach the middle group of the southern provinces. Livestock production becomes a commodity production industry, livestock products are produced mainly in farms and ranches applying high technology, bio-safety and environmental friendliness, excellent prevention and control of dangerous infectious diseases…
According to Mr. Nguyen Dinh Xuan, Director of Tay Ninh province Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, in order to achieve this, policies supporting livestock development in association with solutions must be established synchronously, addressing all aspects of the livestock sector from breeding, techniques, disease control, production organization, processing and market development. Thereby, create favorable conditions for the strong development of breeding models applying high technology, environmentally friendly, suitable to the production conditions of farmers; develop models of livestock production that meet product quality standards, aiming to meet export requirements (VietGAP, GlobalGAP, organic).
Strengthen the implementation of scientific and technological topics, schemes and projects in the field of animal husbandry, with priority given to key livestock species encouraged to develop, withhigh productivity and quality, suitable for local nature conditions and climate; Mobilize resources and investment of businesses and farmers in livestock production, especially in the processing and deep processing of livestock products; form a value chain link from livestock production to slaughter -processing and consumption of products.
“The direction for the development of the livestock sector is mainly farm and industrial farming, gradually reduce the household livestock model; Development orientation should be based on exploiting potentials and advantages available in each region and locality in terms of natural conditions and resources. In addition, in order to bring the livestock industry to a sustainable development, it is necessary to develop the value chain of the commodity industry, which requires attracting potential businesses to lead farms, livestock households, livestock products slaughtering, processing and consumption establishments to implement the value chain and improve value”, emphasized Mr. Nguyen Dinh Xuan.