A livestock breeding project to economically empower ethnic minoritywomen in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai has provedeffective, helping hundreds of households in the locality escape frompoverty.
Funded by Oxfam – a non-governmentalorganisation from the United Kingdom - the breeding project developed astock of 150 breeding pigs into 430 pigs with healthy weights and goodresistance to diseases.
Carried out in Muong Khuongdistrict from October 2012, the project attracted the participation of366 ethnic minority women in 14 groups. It delivered 150 female and malepigs to the groups to assist poor households in developing theirfamilies’ economy.
When a sow has new-born pigs, thehouseholds will give back a healthy piglet to their group to give toother people in the group.
Apart from being providedwith pigs, group members also took part in training courses to studymethods of effective cattle-breeding as well as ways to use veterinarymedicine and manage home economics.
According to NinhQuy Tao, Deputy Director of the provincial agriculture encouragementcentre, by 2015, the project is expected to help more than 1,000 women,mostly from the H’Mong, Dao, Nung and Day groups in Bat Xat and MuongKhuong districts improve household incomes.
Throughcapacity building for ethnic minority women in market-orientedproduction and market negotiation skills, the project is also expectedto create resources that will strongly support ethnic women to claim anequal status with the men in their community.-VNA
Funded by Oxfam – a non-governmentalorganisation from the United Kingdom - the breeding project developed astock of 150 breeding pigs into 430 pigs with healthy weights and goodresistance to diseases.
Carried out in Muong Khuongdistrict from October 2012, the project attracted the participation of366 ethnic minority women in 14 groups. It delivered 150 female and malepigs to the groups to assist poor households in developing theirfamilies’ economy.
When a sow has new-born pigs, thehouseholds will give back a healthy piglet to their group to give toother people in the group.
Apart from being providedwith pigs, group members also took part in training courses to studymethods of effective cattle-breeding as well as ways to use veterinarymedicine and manage home economics.
According to NinhQuy Tao, Deputy Director of the provincial agriculture encouragementcentre, by 2015, the project is expected to help more than 1,000 women,mostly from the H’Mong, Dao, Nung and Day groups in Bat Xat and MuongKhuong districts improve household incomes.
Throughcapacity building for ethnic minority women in market-orientedproduction and market negotiation skills, the project is also expectedto create resources that will strongly support ethnic women to claim anequal status with the men in their community.-VNA
