(HBO) – Against the backdrop of increasing animal feed prices and unstable chicken market caused by COVID-19 that trouble a large number of chicken farming households, farmer members of Tuan Chuyen Livestock Farming Service Cooperative in Phu Thanh Commune, Lac Thuy district, are still able to make profit from their work.
A worker of Tuan Chuyen Livestock Farming Service
Cooperative, Phu Thanh Commune (Lac Thuy), separates cocks and hens after they
are moved out of the incubator.
The cooperative’s chairman and director Trinh Van Tuan said that the
cooperative has established partnership with 100 chicken-farming households,
called satellite households, forming a large-scale production that helps the
farmers stablise prices and prevent inventory.
On the one hand, the cooperative is responsible for providing farmers with
young chicks, feed and instructions on proper farming technique and committed
to purchase eggs and commercial chickens from all satellite households. On the
other hand, satellite households are required to raise their livestock in
accordance to the provided instructions and training.
Thanks to these efforts, the cooperative has emerged as a reputed provider of
young chicks and commercial chickens nationwide. It now owns 36 incubators,
capable of providing 80,000 - 100,000 offsprings weekly, which are usually
transported to HCM City and the island of Phu Quoc by air.
The cooperative also has four stores in Hanoi, two in Ha Long City (Quang
Ninh), and one in Lao Cai. Each can sell around 2 tonnes of chicken per day.
Getting together in a cooperative has helped its members and satellite
households to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Cao Van Dan, a farmer from Phu
Thanh commune's Bot village whose family is a satellite household, said he has
received support in purchasing young chicks, building the farm and distributing
the products.
Now his household is raising about 8,000 chickens, providing the cooperatives
with some 800 eggs daily. Last year, turnover from his chicken farm reached 500
million VND.
The cooperative currently employs about 40 local workers, and generates 100
billion VND in revenue and 5 billion VND in profit every year.
The business model deployed by Tuan Chuyen cooperative has proved profitable
and enabled the district to improve Lac Thuy chicken trademark, said Hoang Dinh
Chinh, deputy head of Lac Thuy's division of agriculture and rural
development.
