PM Okays Breeding Development Strategy by 2020

Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ratified the animal husbandry development strategy until 2020 with the focuses on raising proportion in agriculture and applying widely industrial breeding models.

 

Under the strategy, the sector targets to gain average annual growth of 8 per cent and 9 per cent from now to 2010, 6 per cent and 7 per cent in the 2010-2015 period, and 5 per cent and 6 per cent from 2015 to 2020, and to account 42 per cent of the agriculture’s total production value.

 

The sector planned to produce 5,500 tons of meat by 2020, including 63 per cent of pork, 32 per cent of poultry and 4 per cent of beef.

 

To achieve the target, the sector will concentrate on planning, science and technology, finance and credits and land.

 

The animal husbandry sector said it will give top priorities to the control of animal feed quality, the prevention of epidemics, personnel training and the organization of production.

 

As of middle 2007, Vietnam had 2.996 million buffaloes (up 2.6 per cent), 6.725 million cows (up 3.3 per cent), 226 million poultry (up 5.3 per cent), and 26.6 million pigs (down 1.1 per cent). (Vietnam Agriculture)