Households in Hung Loi and Trung Minh communes (Yen Son) receive breeding cows at Tien Thanh High-Tech Agricultural Cooperative, Hoang Khai commune.

Mr. Dinh Van Bac, Director of the Yen Son District Agricultural Service Center, said that the Center has implemented 2 projects including: Project to support breeding cows of 80 for Hung Loi and Trung Minh communes; project to raise breeding cows of 42 for Cong Da, Kien Thiet, Dao Vien, and Trung Truc communes.

This is a support program under Project 3, for 122 households in the communes, each household is supported with 1 breeding animal, with a total value of over VND8 billion, from the capital of the National Target Program for Economic Development of Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas in the district, he said.

Although newly implemented, the project of raising cows and breeding buffaloes, coordinated by the District Agricultural Service Center with Tien Thanh High-Tech Agricultural Cooperative, Hoang Khai Commune for households to benefit from, has initially been effective.

After breeding cows and breeding buffaloes, households will be trained in semi-intensive breeding cows and breeding buffaloes, processing techniques, preserving agricultural waste as feed for cows and buffaloes; disease prevention, etc.

The project also partially supports feed and veterinary medicine to prevent diseases for cows and buffaloes.

Hung Loi commune is one of two communes selected to implement the project of breeding female buffaloes in association with the value chain with 70 breeding female buffaloes for 70 poor and near-poor households who are ethnic minorities.

To effectively implement this project, the evaluation of poor, near-poor and escaped poverty households who are ethnic minorities who benefit is carried out publicly and democratically in villages and hamlets according to the criteria of selecting households with labor and grazing land to develop livestock farming.

The project of breeding female cows and female buffaloes in communes in Yen Son district has contributed to supporting poor and near-poor households in developing their household economy.