Enabling the expansion of poultry exporter's production capacities

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Tay Ninh reported that the province's livestock production has shifted from fragmented and small farms to concentrated farms, ensuring biosafety in accordance with industrial and semi-industrial methods, being under control, adopting technological advances, and mitigating environmental pollution. 

Tay Ninh has 9.1 million poultry heads and produces 49,000 tons of meat. There are 107 poultry farms (76 chicken farms and 31 duck farms) with 6.4 million heads (representing over 70% of the total population). 

There are seven farms with more than 2.8 million commercial egg-laying poultry and a daily output of more than 2.1 million eggs.

There are 22 establishments in the province that have been granted VietGAHP certificates and 48 establishments that have been granted disease safety certificates.

The Duong Minh Chau district has been certified as a disease-free zone for avian influenza and Newcastle disease in poultry, and the Go Dau district is currently being developed as a disease-free zone.

The establishment of a disease-free agricultural zone attached to biosafety livestock production and the development of agriculture to the VietGAHP standard not only contributed to ensuring the safety of food supplies in response to export demands but also to the modern trend of husbandry.

In recent years, investment attraction in the livestock industry has yielded favorable results, with an increase in the number of investment projects in the field of husbandry in terms of quantity, scope, and high-tech adoption. 

Since 2016, 150 projects have requested investment policy approval, and 112 projects have been approved by the Provincial People's Committee, including 34 breeding projects involving 9.5 million poultry.

Particularly, in the Tan Bien district, there are two commercial egg production ventures owned by QL Vietnam Agroresources Co., Ltd. and QL Farm Company, with an average daily egg production of approximately 1.8 million eggs.

Notably, many large companies and local producers across the nation have constructed numerous processing factories with advanced technology.

For instance, Hung Nhon and De Heus Group have exported poultry products; they are two of the groups focusing on developing chain links in the province with projects ranging from providing breeding stock (Factory of Bell Chicken, An Hoa - Trang Bang Industrial Park) to investing in breeding areas employing high technology of breeding chickens (280,000 chickens) and a farm raising 5 million broilers, as well as investing in a complex of slaughterhouses and poultry processing DHN. The province of Tay Ninh is encouraging and supporting development in this direction.

Mr. Nguyen Dinh Xuan, Director of the Tay Ninh Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, added that the province's potential for developing the poultry industry remains favorable and should be encouraged. To ensure sustainable efficacy, however, it is necessary to focus on all phases of the linkage chain, including seed, process, production organization, and disease control.

In addition, conditions must be established so that companies that have exported poultry products to international markets can expand their production scale and develop new products. Expand markets and export poultry products to potential markets such as China, South Korea, and the Philippines. 

According to the national plan approved by the Government on July 25, by 2030, Binh Phuoc, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, and Tay Ninh provinces will be the disease-free livestock centers of the whole country.

Accordingly, the Plan aims to build disease-free facilities and areas for livestock and poultry to serve domestic consumption and export.

Ensure veterinary hygiene and food safety in animal husbandry, transportation, slaughter, preliminary processing, processing, and trading of animals and animal products; import aquatic animals and animal products.

Specific goals on strengthening capacity for managing and controlling animal diseases transmitted between animals and humans from 2023 to 2030.

Six regions of Binh Phuoc Province, one region of Tay Ninh Province, and 12 other regions in Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Tay Ninh, and Ho Chi Minh City have achieved epidemic safety following Vietnam's regulations.

"In addition to focusing on the domestic market of more than 100 million people, exporting poultry products to other countries is an unavoidable trend that managers and enterprises must be aware of. To achieve this, we must invest in in-depth research to align production with the demands of each export market. Particularly, animal husbandry processes must be rigorously regulated in order to guarantee veterinary safety. To consider exporting, facilities, farms, and breeding grounds must be recognized and genuinely disease-free", Mr. Nguyen Dinh Xuan, director of the Tay Ninh Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, emphasized that a second solution is to organize processing well.