Tay Ninh attracting large businesses in the livestock industry

Tay Ninh is located in the Southeast region - famously known as the "capital" of livestock of the country. However, despite having favorable natural conditions, land, and geographical location for livestock development, livestock production in Tay Ninh can't compete with many other provinces in the Southeast, especially in industrially raised livestock such as pigs and chickens.

Information from the Tay Ninh Department of MARD shows that up to now, the total pig herd in Tay Ninh is 218,000 pigs. Consequently, the pig herd in Tay Ninh is much smaller than in other provinces in the Southeast. In particular, Dong Nai currently has about 2.56 million pigs, Binh Phuoc has more than 1.8 million pigs, and Binh Duong has 958 thousand pigs. Regarding poultry, Tay Ninh currently has a total herd of more than 8.9 million heads, while Binh Phuoc has 10.7 million heads, Binh Duong has 13.7 million heads, and Dong Nai has 26.1 million heads...

One of the important reasons why livestock production in Tay Ninh has not developed is the absence of large businesses, especially those in the position of leading the livestock value chain.

Mr. Tran Van Chien, Vice Chairman of Tay Ninh province, said that the province has not yet attracted corporations and businesses in slaughtering, processing, and consuming products that are capable of leading the entire livestock value chain activities from seed, feed, and veterinary medicine. Consequently, up to now, Tay Ninh still has no official export of livestock and poultry products.

People's Committee of Tay Ninh Province created Plan No. 2826/KH-UBND on livestock value chain development in Tay Ninh province in the period of 2022-2025 (issued on August 26, 2022). They have paid special attention to attracting large livestock businesses to invest in the area, especially those that can build and lead the livestock value chain.

Specifically, in Plan No. 2826, Tay Ninh sets a goal to focus on attracting large, capable and experienced businesses to invest in the fields of slaughter, meat processing, and dairy processing. This is to lead and coordinate chain activities. These businesses will be supported with investment incentives such as corporate income tax incentives, import tax incentives; land rent exemption, or reductions... when building chains.

Businesses invest in livestock value chains; invest in the production of original breeds, grandparent breeds (for pigs and chickens), nuclear herds (for beef and dairy cows), building slaughterhouses, deep processing; chicken egg processing establishments, birds nest processing establishments obtaining export certificates will be considered by the People's Committee of Tay Ninh province. Tay Ninh Provincial People's Committee considers investment policy to develop livestock in districts that have almost reached or reached the livestock density as prescribed (Tan Bien, Chau Thanh ...). This requires the province's average livestock density not to exceed 1.5 livestock units.

These businesses are given priority to access the province's public land fund and the province's hi-tech agricultural planning area (such as the land fund at Rubber Company 1-5 ...). The People's Committee of Tay Ninh province requires its attached agencies to effectively implement policies and tax incentives for activities in the fields of the livestock industry. This is to create conditions for organizations and individuals to invest in the construction of biosafety breeding establishments or concentrated slaughter, preservation, and processing establishments for cattle and poultry, and to develop hi-tech husbandry.

Relevant agencies in Tay Ninh shall review and perfect relevant mechanisms and policies to attract and encourage investment in technical infrastructure. They also apply science and technology to develop modern animal husbandry, following a closed chain, improving productivity, quality, and competitiveness of the livestock industry.

Support and guide organizations and individuals to invest in livestock development, build slaughterhouses and processing plants in the land lease, and change land use purposes. Promptly solve and remove difficulties and obstacles arising in the process of implementing investment steps in building livestock and processing establishments.

Implement synchronous measures to improve the investment environment, and simplify administrative procedures to a minimum to create the most favorable conditions. This is to encourage businesses to invest in agriculture.

In the livestock value chain development plan in Tay Ninh province for the period of 2022-2025, the province will focus on livestock with strengths such as pigs, beef cattle, dairy cows, broiler chickens, egg chickens, and swiftlets. Tay Ninh strives for a herd size that reaches at least 550,000 pigs, 20,000 dairy cows, 105,000 beef cows, 10,000,000 chickens, and 1,000 bird nests (6 tons of bird's nests/year) in 2025.