High-tech and safe agricultural production is the main and essential course of Binh Duong Agriculture in a bid to mitigate diseases while ensuring environment protection and yield effectiveness.
High-tech husbandry
Farmers in Binh Duong Province are diverting to high-tech and safe agricultural production so that they can proactively prevent diseases without excessive use of chemicals and medicines but yield is high.
An officer of Tan Uyen District Plant Protection Division is showing farmers from Bach Dang Commune how to follow VietGAP in rice growing
In husbandry, bio-safe husbandry is necessary to ensure environmental factors meaning reduction of possible disease outbreaks to make great leaps in husbandry in recent years.
Concentrated husbandry is the main course to confirm its priority with high income to farmers.
Thus, make-shift and unsafe models of husbandry have been reduced.
Of poultries and pigs, the two major animal in husbandry in Binh Duong Province, the locality eyed year-on-year growth of the herd to 500,000 pigs and over 3.5 million poultries in 4,400 household of husbandry and nearly 30,000 other of small-scale poultry farms.
Such growth has required the farmers to take good care of surrounding environment so as not to affect the community.
In the face of dramatic growth of husbandry, bio-safe approach is the major and necessary diversion in mitigating new diseases from breaking out on the herds while ensuring surrounding environment and income of the farmers.
The approach combines measures and method to prevent exposure to disease sources, thus, safe products are made to the community.
Mr. Nguyen Van Dong, Deputy Head of Binh Duong Veterinary Department, said that income would come hand in hand with environment protection to offset the initially high investment with efficiency.
Households of mass pigs herds in the province have paid more attention to environment treatment by taking use of pigs releases in Biogas system.
The model of high-tech chicken farm of Mr. Tran Thanh Co in Hieu Liem Commune of Tan Uyen District
Mr. Tran Thanh Co, owner of a high-tech chicken farm at Hieu Liem Commune in Tan Uyen District confirmed that high-tech husbandry would require high initial investment in terms of funds and land; however, the yield would be higher and safer against diseases.
Bright sight with VietGAP
In planting, VietGAP has been considered as a good model to follow including various examples of successful VietGAP pamelo planting. Mr. Ngo Van Hai, Chair of Bach Dang Commune Farmer Association in Tan Uyen District informed that Bach Dang had about 400 hectares of pamelo orchard with about 300 families and 5 orchards qualified with VietGAP which was relatively low comparing to the model effectiveness.
Thus, expansion of VietGAP model has helped farmers to improve their production yield and finally their income.
Aside from pamelo, local farmers in Bach Dang also apply VietGAP to their rice farm patches of about 20 hectares.
Mr. Duong Van Hung, a rice farmer following VietGAP at Chanh Hung Hamlet, said that VietGAP has brought him big income thanks to efficient use of fertilizers and many other techniques applied.
“VietGAP has changed the habit of rice growing, thus, changed the life of local people,” said Ngo Van Hai.
High-tech agriculture, bio-safe husbandry, and VietGAP in planting have long been a good exit for Binh Duong farmers who are being diverted to safe and sustainable agricultural development in the face of a changing world.
Reported by Cao Son – Translated by Vi Bao
