With the desire to get rich in their homeland, in recent years, many parishioners in the Nghia Dan district (Nghe An) have developed their economy through dairy farming.
In 2010, after many years of struggling with different jobs but without success, Mr. Nguyen Van Danh, a parishioner in Dong Tam A hamlet, Dong Tam parish, Nghia An commune, Nghia Dan district, switched to raising dairy cows. In particular, after the dairy factory had a policy to support output consumption, Mr. Danh put all his capital into building cow barns and growing grass.
At first, he raised 5 cows but had no experience so his family encountered many difficulties in taking care of this new breed of cows.
To gain knowledge, Mr. Danh participated in technical training classes organized by the district and commune farmers’ associations, and at the same time researched a successful dairy farming model himself. After years of diligence, staying up late and waking up early, the cows began to give milk.
With the revolving capital from selling milk, after a while, Mr. Danh paid off the bank loan and continued to invest to expand the cow herd. Up to now, the family’s total number of cows has always maintained 25-30 cows, of which 10-14 cows produce milk, an average of 2.2-2.5 quintals, with a milk price of 15,000 VND/kg.
In addition to milk, Mr. Danh also has income from selling male calves for 20-25 million VND/head. Minus expenses, each year Mr. Danh’s family profits about 250-300 million VND.
Mr. Danh shared: “Raising dairy cows has a higher income than raising other types of animals but is more difficult. To keep dairy cows healthy, it is necessary to regularly clean the barn, kill mosquitoes and flies, and apply proper nutrition. Technical process. Cows must be vaccinated periodically to avoid contracting certain diseases such as cholera, foot-and-mouth disease, and pasteurellosis.”
According to Mr. Danh, dairy farmers must pay special attention to supplementing appropriate food sources rich in nutrients during the milking period to ensure quality milk as well as maintain the cow’s health. To ensure a source of food for the cows, the family also set aside land of over 500 square meters to grow more elephant grass.
Mr. Pham Van Luyen’s family, in hamlet 10B, Dong Tam parish, Nghia An commune, also boldly put all their capital and borrowed more to invest in building barns, buying 5 breeding dairy cows for 50-60 million VND. /child to raise.
Mr. Luyen said that raising dairy cows is much more difficult than raising pigs, chickens, ducks… but has a high and stable source of income, without fear of losses. His family has bought more and is raising 12 dairy cows, of which 7 are producing milk.
“Thanks to dairy farming, minus expenses, every month my family earns a profit of 15-20 million VND in milk,” Mr. Luyen shared.
According to Mr. Luyen, raising dairy cows needs to ensure food sources; foster care regime, disease prevention and breeding. In order to ensure input costs and milk quality, in addition to fresh grass, he also feeds his cows synthetic feed such as waxy corn, rice bran, and other by-products.
On average, a dairy cow eats 10kg of synthetic feed and 20kg of fresh grass every day. In addition, the family also rented nearly 1 hectare of elephant grass to ensure food reserves during the dry season.
Currently, Nghia An commune has strongly developed dairy cows, with a total herd of more than 350 cows. The current selling price to the collection company is 13,000-15,000 VND/liter of fresh milk, bringing in hundreds of millions of VND per household/year.
Ms. Dang Thi Hong Duyen, Chairwoman of Nghia An Commune Farmers’ Association, said: “Recognizing the local advantages and having available models of previous households, we have propagated for members to go on study tours.” From there, expand the dairy farming model.
To date, all models have been successful, providing stable income. These models not only contribute to creating jobs for local idle workers , but also actively contribute to building new rural areas.”
($1~24,000 VND)
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