Building a sheep breeding model in adaptation to climate change

On October 2, Le Quoc Thanh, Director of the National Agricultural Extension Center, inspected a number of models and projects the center implemented in Ninh Thuan.

The delegation visited and inspected the climate change-adaptive sheep farm under a project to build a climate change-adaptive sheep breeding model in the South Central Coast region in Bac Son commune (Thuan Bac district). It is a national agricultural extension project implemented from 2024 to 2026 in Ninh Thuan and Binh Thuan provinces.

Bac Son commune (Thuan Bac district) was selected to implement the model in 2024 with a scale of 105 Dopper sheep (100 females, 5 males) per 5 sheep farming households receiving support. Households benefiting from the project have put in efforts to care for and raise these crossbred sheep to share the breeding source with the people in the commune.

They apply technical processes for planting, processing feed and preventing and treating diseases for sheep, then pass on experiences to the following households with less experience. At the same time, the local government also gathered these households into cooperative teams and cooperative groups or sheep breeding cooperatives to build brands and spread breeding experiences.

Director Le Quoc Thanh shared the current difficulties in sheep farming in the face of climate change, along with extensive farming and signs of degeneration in breeding.

Through the actual inspection, he highly evaluated the selection of households participating in the model and reminded the host unit and technical staff to continue monitoring, providing guidance as well as technical support to households participating in the model.

The involved households must make the correct and sufficient counterpart investment and fully implement the signed contents so that the model can achieve the highest efficiency. Making full use of this occasion, the working delegation also coordinated with the Bac Son commune government to present 50 handbooks and billboards on how to prevent African swine fever to pig farmers in Bac Son commune in consideration of an outbreak in this locality.