Prioritizing vaccination for 1-day-old chickens, Luong Hue JSC lowers risks for partners

Chicken farming has faced some setbacks recently. Vietnamese enterprises conducting business in this field have made big investments just to be able to compete with foreign businesses on all fronts. Some decisive factors include the closed livestock chain, supply in terms of farming process, and consumption.

Luong Hue Poultry Breeding Joint Stock Company (Luong Hue JSC) has been considered Hai Phong’s leading chicken supply and consumption enterprise for many years. The company has helped many households escape poverty using its own methods, with the most important key being disease prevention for breeding chickens. Luong Hue JSC is currently performing vaccination against 4 and 6 diseases on 1-day-old chicks which serves to benefit local farmers.

According to Nguyen Van Hoa (Hiep Hoa commune, Vinh Bao district), a chicken farmer associated with Luong Hue JSC, the household used to practice small-scale chicken farming so he neglected vaccination. As a result, the farming process was full of problems. Only after working with companies did Hoa recognize the impact of vaccines.

“In the past, from the time they are raised to the time they are sold, the rate of loss of chickens is 7 - 7.5%. Now, as I raise them properly by following the company's instructions, the risk of losses almost vanishes,” he said.

In terms of disease management, Luong Hue JSC has its own set of regulations for the company's affiliated farms and satellite farms apart from the requirements of state agencies, such as biosafety farming certificates or Vietnam Good Animal Husbandry Practices (VietGAHP) standards.

“Luong Hue JSC is a pioneer among Vietnamese businesses in applying the 6-in-1 vaccine for chicken flocks before supplying it to partners. This vaccination program will ensure the prevention of dangerous diseases in chicken flocks, such as avian flu which can cause mass deaths and erratic losses for farmers in a short period of time. It will also lessen the burden of customers and farmers in the vaccination stage, minimizing the potential risk of diseases on chickens and the spread of unusual diseases to the farming community,” said Nguyen Van Quy, Technical Director of Luong Hue JSC.

In one trading session, Luong Hue JSC is able to vaccinate 100,000 to 120,000 chickens. This helps the local veterinary force stabilize the disease management work while reducing the cost of vaccines for farmers.

Boasting its strengths thanks to the high-tech farming processes, Luong Hue JSC also establishes a link chain from raising parent chickens and broiler chickens to slaughtering lines, processing plants, and feed production factories. As farmers guarantee the standards set by Luong Hue JSC and its partners, the clean chicken products will be purchased at a fixed price, regardless of market prices.

In its link chain from production to underwriting output, Luong Hue JSC considers the Ogari slaughtering and processing factory a crucial piece of the puzzle. After the Ogari chicken brand is launched, the last link in the company's closed livestock value chain is completed.

After being purchased from affiliated farms, chicken is processed into products qualified for food hygiene and safety standards as well as ISO HACCP certification. Luong Hue JSC offers a wide range of products to the market, including Ogari traditional egg-dropping hens, Ogari roosters with spurs, Ogari roosters specifically for Tet, Ogari 3-clean hens, and specialty silk chickens. Chicken products are then supplied to partners, which are kitchens, industrial parks, supermarkets such as Metro, Vinmart, Big C, Aeon, or export processing zones as per the signed contracts.

Not only aiming to guarantee output for farmers, Luong Hue JSC also offers fixed price contracts to product consumption partners. Considering the market mechanism, the purchasing process can be adjusted but not significantly to ensure mutual benefit.

The company is affiliated with 40 - 50 farms at present. The smallest farm has 6,000 chickens while the largest has a scale of 30,000 chickens, and most of the linked farms are in Hai Phong. As for industrial chickens, Luong Hue JSC is affiliated with a number of joint venture farming companies in Thai Nguyen, Phu Tho, Lao Cai, and Yen Bai.