Binh Phuoc is the destination for large livestock businesses

Binh Phuoc is a province with a rapidly growing livestock industry in terms of scale and production organization, with increases in quantity and quality. Livestock has accounted for a high proportion of the province's agricultural structure. Up to now, Binh Phuoc has over 1.8 million pigs, over 10.6 million poultry, and nearly 53 thousand cattle and 160,000 goats.

There is a very important reason for the strong development of Binh Phuoc livestock in recent years, is that the province has attracted many leading businesses in the livestock industry in Vietnam to invest. They include FDI businesses and domestic businesses such as C.P. Vietnam, Japfa Comfeed Vietnam, Emivest, CJ Vina Agri, Hoa Phat, Thai Viet Swine Line, Tan Long Group, New Hope, Vietswan, Dabaco, Sunjin, Velmar...

C.P. Vietnam is a business investing in large-scale husbandry in Binh Phuoc with the CPV Food complex that raises and processes chicken for export. This complex has an investment capital of $250 million and is the largest and most modern livestock complex in Vietnam today. In phase 1, CPV Food has a processing capacity of 50 million chickens/year and will increase to 100 million chickens/year when entering phase 2 of the project.

Mr. Wangakkarangkul, Deputy General Director of C.P Vietnam, said that the investment company chose Binh Phuoc to invest in the project of raising and processing chicken for export. The first condition to export chicken meat is to have a safe area for avian influenza and Newcastle disease. Binh Phuoc, Binh Duong, and Tay Ninh are the three most suitable provinces in the Southeast with the suitable condition to build epidemic-free zones.

In these three provinces, C.P. Vietnam decided to choose Binh Phuoc because this province has long developed mainly in rubber cultivation. Livestock production in Binh Phuoc at the time before C.P. Vietnam embarks on building CPV Food (in 2019) was mainly minuscule and the total herd of cattle and poultry is small. Therefore, in Binh Phuoc, there are many areas with abilities to build large-scale livestock farms and build disease-free areas with poultry production.

Comments of C.P. Vietnam coincide with the views of MARD and Binh Phuoc province on the potential of livestock development and the building of disease-free zones in this province. Since 2019, with the support of MARD, Department of Animal Health, Binh Phuoc province has successfully built disease-free areas for chickens in 4 districts of Chon Thanh, Hon Quan, Dong Phu, Bu Dang, Dong Xoai city, and Binh Long town. This is one of the important bases for CPV Food to be licensed by Japan to export processed chicken to this market. In October, CPV Food exported the first batch of chicken to Japan.

The investment of leading businesses in the livestock industry is also helping Binh Phuoc livestock to thrive in the direction of large-scale livestock. Up to now, Binh Phuoc has 376 pig farms (240 farms following the model of cold and high-tech barns), accounting for 92.5% of the total pig herd in the province.

Regarding poultry, Binh Phuoc has 88 farms (59 farms following the model of cold, high-tech cages), accounting for 81.7% of the total herd. Consequently, it can be seen that industrial livestock is the main form of animal husbandry in Binh Phuoc. Small-scale livestock production at the household scale currently only accounts for a relatively low percentage.

Mr. Tran Van Phuong, Deputy Director of the Binh Phuoc Department of MARD affirmed that industrial livestock development is associated with the value chain in the province. There has been a clear change in both scale and production organization. Up to now, in addition to livestock farms, in Binh Phuoc, there are 3 poultry hatcheries, 3 feed processing factories, and 2 livestock slaughtering and processing factories in operation. Currently, CPV Food's disease-free chicken meat chain for export has been established. Initially, a disease-free pork production chain of Japfa Comfeed Vietnam has also been established.

CPV Food is a complex of modern and largest export chicken breeding and processing factories in Vietnam, with a total initial investment of USD250 million. In 2021, it exported more than 217 tons of processed chicken meat. In the first eight months of this year, it exported more than 442 tons of processed chicken to Hong Kong and Laos.