Awakening the potential of "Lac Thuy chicken"

11/14/2018 - 10:46:13 AM

(HBO) - Being a cool climate locality with large garden area, this is considered a golden terrain advantage for Lac Thuy district to develop chicken raising. In order to awaken the potential and build up the brand for Lac Thuy chicken, the party committees, local authorities have promoted the propaganda and mobilized people to develop and expand the scale of production and husbandry according to the process to create delicious chicken products with prestige and high quality.

The chicken farming model of Mr. Pham Van Tuan's family, in Phu Thanh commune (Lac Thuy) brings about 600-700 million VND revenue each year.

At present, Lac Thuy district has over 610,000 chickens raised on farms and family farms concentrated in Phu Thanh, An Binh, Dong Tam, Phu Lao, Thanh Nong communes and scattered in all communes and town in the district. In the 11 priority sectors that Lac Thuy proposed in the restructuring project for agriculture, livestock production is one of the key priorities. In order to change from the thinking and awareness to the actions of the people in the development of chicken raising, the Party Committee, the authorities of Lac Thuy district, communes and towns have many practical and effective ways such as creating conditions for people to access loans, land area for grazing; connecting with professional agencies to support people in science and technology, disease prevention; promoting the potential promotion and quality of Lac Thuy chicken. So Lac Thuy chicken has been known and bought in many provinces.

For the livestock sector of Lac Thuy district, in the period 2016-2020, will focus on development, making the raising livestock become a key part in agricultural production, a breakthrough in the restructuring of rural economy. They strive to increase the average production value of the livestock industry by 8.5% per year and by 2020, the husbandry sector accounts for 26.1% of the agriculture, forestry and fishery industry. Particularly, Lac Thuy chicken will be developed in the direction of both concentrated and scattered in the majority of farm households in the way of intensive farming. Farm-scale breeding is carried out in concentrated livestock areas as planned. By 2020, the total number of poultry in the district will be 800,000 animals and 800 tonnes will be produced. The planning area of integrated breeding of disease safety for raising areas and breeding areas will be gradually formed.

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