Good disease control

According to Ninh Thuan Livestock and Veterinary Sub-department, in the first six months of 2023, the situation of local livestock and poultry farming declined slightly compared with previous years, the total livestock herd reached over 500,000 heads, down 3, 5% in the same period.

The number of cattle with horns reached 352,600 head, which is a decrease of 6% compared to the same period last year, including buffalo herds with almost 3,900 head, cows with over 120,300 cows (the proportion of hybrid cows is estimated at 50%), goats with 127,800 pieces, Currently there are 100,600 sheep, over 147,800 pigs and over 2.25 million poultry.

The total production of live meat and slaughter poultry is estimated at almost 19,660 tons in the first six months of 2023; It produced more than 15,800 tons of beef, including nearly 3,000 tons of buffalo and cow meat, nearly 10,900 tons of live pork, nearly 2,000 tons of goat and sheep meat, more than 3,800 tons of poultry meat, and nearly 39,000,000 eggs. .

Mr. Phan Dinh Thinh, director of the Ninh Thuan Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sub-department said that the sub-department has strengthened prevention and control measures to ensure disease safety for livestock.

As a result, dangerous infectious diseases for livestock and poultry such as e.g. E.g. eczema in cattle, bird flu, blue-eared pigs, African swine fever and rabies in animals … generally well controlled, but not found in the herd.

However, livestock and poultry in Ninh Thuan still suffer from common infectious diseases such as Ecoli in pigs and Newcatle in chickens in some areas.

“Last time, the livestock and poultry disease situation in Ninh Thuan was basically stably brought under control. However, we are not subjective. This provincial sub-department of animal husbandry and veterinary medicine still directs district and city animal husbandry and veterinary stations to actively promote and recommends livestock farms in the region to actively implement biosecurity agriculture. Disinfect, disinfect and disinfect the stables regularly to ensure a breeding environment and prevent disease,” said Mr. Phan Dinh Thinh.

At the same time, in 2023, Ninh Thuan’s Livestock and Veterinary Medicine Department first organized a cattle and poultry vaccination training course with more than 100 participants, including representatives from the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Department of Economy. districts and cities.

Community Agriculture and Free Veterinary Committees and a number of livestock and poultry farms in the province. The content of the training on the dissemination of the documents on the prevention and control of animal diseases and on the prevention of animal rabies in the province…

“In addition, we have distributed 1,400 brochures on cholera prevention and control in ruminants, 80 technical manuals on foot-and-mouth disease prevention and control, 50 books on rabies prevention and control, and 70 brochures on African swine fever prevention and control. 90 leaflets on the prevention and control of bird flu, 40 leaflets on the prevention and control of inflammatory skin diseases, to widely disseminate solutions to prevent and control the disease. Livestock and poultry diseases to farmers in the region,” said Mr. Phan Dinh Thinh, director of the Ninh Thuan Livestock and Veterinary Sub-department.

Promoting connections for sustainable livestock development

According to Mr. Phan Dinh Thinh, historically, Ninh Thuan continues to maintain five chains of production links linked to the consumption of animal products in the communities. As part of the cow husbandry value chain, Hong Loan Trading Service Co., Ltd is currently upgrading and expanding the slaughter area.

The chain of raising goats and sheep for fattening is stably maintained, namely in the form of owners of processing and slaughterhouses and traders who deliver and buy back the first goats and sheep to cattle farmers up to the moment of release. With this model, the owner of a processing and slaughterhouse always has a source of goats and sheep to supply meat to the market, and the breeder has a stable job and income.

So far, Ninh Thuan has maintained a stable pig farming association model between CP Vietnam Livestock Joint Stock Company and CJ Vina Agri Co., Ltd with livestock farms. There are currently 50 pig farms in Ninh Thuan with a total herd size of over 126,300 animals. In the 44 pork processing plants with a total herd of almost 64,000 animals, the crossbreeding rate of foreign pigs is over 90%.

As for chicken breeding, Ninh Thuan currently has 9 farms affiliated with Vietnam Joint Stock Company and Emivest Company with a number of about 219,880 chickens. Ninh Thuan is associated with the high-tech model of duck meat rearing, and currently has a CP Vietnam Livestock Joint Stock Company-affiliated facility for rearing supermeat ducks with a size of 32,000 head per litter in Quang Son Township (Ninh Son District) .

In addition, Ninh Thuan still adheres to the model of combining field duck farming with the method of entrepreneurial households investing in seed and feed for farm households and then buying them back at market prices to cover costs. Invest. Local black pigs and chickens bred in Ninh Thuan are also purchased by Suoi Da Cooperative in Loi Hai Township (Thuan Bac District) and Phuoc Dai Cooperative (Bac Ai District).

At present, in the pig breeding link chain between CP Vietnam Livestock Joint Stock Company and CJ Vina Agri Co.,Ltd. mainly applied advanced science and technology and high technology to livestock, such as: cold farm design, automatic feeding and water supply system cages; Some farms use manure separators to treat livestock waste, limit biogar overload and minimize pollution.

Mr. Phan Dinh Thinh, Director of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Sub-department of Ninh Thuan: “Most of the affiliated pig and chicken farms in Ninh Thuan Province invest in disinfection spraying system and apply animal husbandry, biosecurity, care, care and disease prevention and control become strictly controlled according to the regulations, minimizing possible epidemics.”