Thuy Dung
Delegates speak at a seminar on supporting livestock farming model changes in Hanoi City on March 13 - Photo: Thuy Dung
Speaking at a seminar in Hanoi City on March 13, Vu Van Tam, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said the sector would suffer adverse impacts from the country’s signing bilateral and multilateral agreements such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and ASEAN Economic Community (AEC).
Meanwhile, households still make up a high proportion in the nation’s livestock farming sector and are vulnerable to market shocks arising from the country’s integration process, Tam said.
This supporting scheme encourages households to develop breeding in a professional and grand way to increase productivity, lower prices and improve economic efficiency. In addition, farmers will be able to secure food hygiene and safety and environmental protection.
The project will apply to all farming households, excluding those providing breeding services for large groups.
Farmers eligible for the project will get assistance in breeder animals, veterinary medicine, animal feed growing and production, facilities, supply chain development and trade promotion.
Van said the nation still has around 12 million livestock farming households and that it is difficult to help all of them shift to larger-scale farming by 2030. Therefore, they still need support in production and veterinary medicine to survive competition from imported products.
To prevent farmers from turning back to the small-scale family-run business model, Nguyen Thanh Son, head of the National Institute of Animal Sciences, said the ministry should set out conditions. For example, farmers must raise animals in specific areas to prevent pollution, meet animal quantity criteria and present long-term farming schemes to local authorities.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
