Acting Director of the Department of Livestock Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Duong (Photo VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Department of Livestock Production under the Ministry of Agricultureand Rural Development will focus on developing production chains in 2019towards phasing out small-scale animal husbandry by households, said ActingDirector of the Department Nguyen Xuan Duong.
Addressing a year-endconference of the department on December 25, Duong said that next year, thedepartment will monitor the market and supply of animal husbandry products totimely inform farmers and consumers, intensify epidemic control work and promotethe export of livestock products.
Tong Xuan Chinh, ViceDirector of the department said that the animal husbandry sector has maintaineda growth of 5-6 percent in recent years, contributing to keeping the growth ofthe whole agricultural sector.
In 2018, total live-weightpork output hits over 3.81 million tonnes, up 2.2 percent year on year withmajor production hubs including Dong Nai, Hanoi, Thai Nguyen and Ha Nam.
Meanwhile, poultry outputis estimated at nearly 1.1 million tonnes, a rise of 6.1 percent compared to2017, and that of milk is expected to reach 960,000 tonnes, up 9 percent.
The sector’s exportrevenue is likely to reach 550 million USD in 2018.
Notably, thedepartment has coordinated with localities to develop production chainsconnecting animal raising, slaughtering, processing and selling. One of themodels is the pork processing complex of Masan Group in Ha Nam province with anannual capacity of 140,000 tonnes of meat bearing the trademark of Meat Deli.The facility became operational on December 23.
Earlier, another facilityfor pig slaughtering and pork processing with an annual capacity of 350,000 pigswas launched in November 2018 in Nam Dinh province.
The department issupporting local firms in selling pork products to Myanmar, Hong Kong (China)and Singapore, and chicken meat to Japan. A safe chicken production zone willalso be developed in central Thanh Hoa province.-VNA
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Acting Director of the Department of Livestock Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Duong (Photo VNA)
