(HBO) - Since November 2016, there have been 12 farmer members of Bung village, Huong Nhuong commune (Lac Son) started to establish Huong Nhuong hill chicken Cooperative with the goal of starting a business on their homeland.

 

Since the establishment of the Cooperative with the main profession of raising chicken hills, members of the Cooperative and households have participated in many technical training courses on chicken care organized by province and district. Initially, there were only 7 households raising about 7000 chickens, the household has the largest number of 3,000 - 4,000 chickens / batch, and small number of from 200 to 500 chickens / batch. Other members raise buffalos; grow safe vegetables, citrus fruit. In 2017, the Cooperative was selected to participate in the project of linked production and consumption of chickens in the value chain under the New Rural Construction program. The project has supported 8,000 breed chickens to the Cooperative, supported training of transferring science and technology to the chicken raising households; supported to buy drugs, vaccines, bulbs, food trays, water bottles and construction of slaughter and preservation areas of chicken with the total supported fund of 300 million VND.

 Since joining the Cooperative, the members not only have had the opportunity to share experiences in breeding but also in buying good breeds, food at low cost because they don’t need the intermediates because there are units available to provide food for the Cooperative and accept to receive the payment after the members sell their products. The Cooperative raises mainly breed native chicken, Son Tay chickens. The chicken are released on the hills, therefore, they are healthy, the meat is firm, good smell, the price is higher, the consumption market  is bigger than the other kinds of chickens.

 The Cooperative has 16 members, who are the households raising livestock and cultivating in the commune. Despite its new establishment, but with effective development strategy, in 2017, the revenue of the cooperative reached 2.9 billion VND and the profit of 600 million VND. At present, the Cooperative maintains two main production lines: livestock husbandry and cultivation.

 Not only doing well in charge of the co-operative director, as the head of the savings and loan group of the village, Ms. Quach Thi Hoa has applied for getting preferential loans from Social Policy Bank with 300 million VND for 9 members to invest in chicken raising. Ms. Quach Thi Hai, a member of the Cooperative, shared: "In the past, I raised about 200 chickens, but the price in the market was unstable. But since I participated in the Cooperative, I would be no longer worried about the market and prices. All the members always support and contribute the capital and effort to help each other in production. When there appeared difficulties, the members gathered together to discuss the solution. In 2017, I was borrowed 50 million VND from the Social Policy Bank to buy 500 breed chickens and nets to raise chickens with an area of 2.700 m2, got the profit of 23 million VND per one chicken batch sale.

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