Agriculture in the capital prospered thanks to high-value crops and endemic livestock

Develop endemic livestock

Hadico Poultry Farming Enterprise is conserving and developing Duong Lam sugarcane chicken breed (chicken offered to the king) in La Gian village, Co Dong commune, Son Tay town. This place is considered the northern provinces' “genes keeper and cane chicken breed provider capital”.

Among the group of famous large-bodied chicken breeds, sugarcane chicken is the most beautiful and delicious with golden and crispy skin, bright and fragrant meat, and unique richness. Therefore, domestic and foreign enterprises have used sugarcane chicken as a valuable genetic resource to create many hybrid combinations, especially colored feather combinations put into production.

To develop the sugarcane chicken brand name, the Hanoi Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has cooperated with local authorities and successfully built the brand "Son Tay Chicken", improving the quality of products brought to the market step by step.

After visiting the sugarcane chicken breeds’ production and supply model of Hadico Poultry Farming Enterprise, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam affirmed: "Hanoi’s sugarcane chicken development is on the right track because this is an animal with high economic value, suitable for the consumption tastes of the citizens of the capital".

Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam also directed the Department of Economic Cooperation and Rural Development to coordinate with the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to research and transfer the genetic resources of Son Tay sugarcane chicken to the northern midland and mountainous provinces, especially localities with hilly areas for the people to invest in husbandry and economic development.

Focus on developing new high-value plant varieties

In the morning of the same day, Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam also paid a visit to the Bo Chinh ginseng growing model in Thanh My new rural commune, Son Tay town, Phuc Lam Hi-tech Agricultural Cooperative, with a scale of 5ha.

Previously, the people on this hilly land only grew cassava, so the income was very low. In 2020, Thanh My commune government has coordinated with Phuc Lam Hi-tech Agricultural Cooperative to mobilize people to lease land to the cooperative (VND 1.5 million/360 m2/year) to deploy a new model, that is the Bo Chinh ginseng.

After the processes of soil improvement, mechanization application in the stage of soil preparation and organic planting, Bo Chinh ginseng has adapted to the land of Son Tay.

According to Mrs. Nhung, Director of Phuc Lam Cooperative, The company really hopes to expand the size of the Bo Chinh ginseng material area, but the land rental encounters a big obstacle because the land in the North is very fragmented. To accumulate 5ha of land, the cooperative had to work with more than 120 households. Moreover, because the agricultural land management mechanism is too strict, cooperatives are not allowed to build warehouses to store and process raw materials on-site.

Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam suggested that Phuc Lam Cooperative should study different methods of land accumulation. For example, farmers will use their land plots to contribute shares to the cooperative, and those who do not have land will contribute money to invest in production infrastructure, input materials, preservation and processing...