Annually, Vu Lam General Agricultural Services Cooperative (Lac Son) put around 4 tons of ostrich meat on the market with turnover of 360 million VND.
He confided that, during early days, the cooperative faced a lot of obstacles in capital and land for expansion. However, with support from the local administration, the business got access to new credits and a lease of 1 hectare of forest land at Re hamlet, An Nghia to build farming facilities for 13,000 chickens, and another 1,140 square meters of land at Lam Hoa 2, Vu Binh to raise 40 ostriches and 10 deers.
Since 2018, the cooperative’s annual chicken meat output to market figures around 78 tons (52,000 heads) worth 4 billion VND, with 4 tons of ostrich meat (40 heads) worth 360 million VND/year; 1.1 tons of deer, with turnover from medicinal antlers and meat worth 360 million VND/year. Minus the expenses, the average income per capita of the cooperative’s members reaches about 585 million VND, creating stable employment for another 10 workers with average monthly income of 5 million VND.
According to Long, his success got roots in mobilizing available local labour, selecting the suitable animals and proper farming scales, breeding stock of good quality. He always put extra care in building farming facilities in compliance with technical requirements, investing in food of good quality and quantity. In husbandry, it is essentialto ensure proper disease prevention and treatment, being in control of the output for timely consumption; supervising the expenses with adjustments in purchasing supplies during market disruptions; rotating the investments and cutting down the loans…
Many local families have come to emulate Vu Lam’s success story, while Long is eager to share experience and disseminate his knowledge to other farmers, contributing to the cause of local hunger abolition and poverty alleviation./.
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