Many farming households in Xuyen Moc district (Ba Ria-Vung Tau province) have invested in developing specialty animal breeding models, including the bamboo rat breeding model - a new livestock model that opens up a new direction to increase income.
In 2023, when he started raising bamboo rats, Mr. Pham Thanh Hai, Phuoc An quarter, Phuoc Buu town (Xuyen Moc district, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province) could not help but worry because this model was quite new.
In Xuyen Moc district, there are only a few households raising bamboo rats - a specialty animal - on a small scale.
Thanks to actively learning and mastering the technical process of raising bamboo rats and how to take care of them, the bamboo rats are growing well and can be sold as breeds by the end of this year.
Introducing the bamboo rats being raised, Mr. Hai said that the farm has two types of bamboo rats: Vietnamese and imported, of which the Thai peach-cheeked bamboo rats are more popular in the market.
Bamboo rats are considered a specialty so the selling price is quite high, more than 13 million VND/pair of breeding bamboo rats, and commercial bamboo rats cost from 900 - 1.2 million VND/kg.
However, the demand for purchasing and consuming bamboo rats is increasing. Therefore, he decided to choose the direction of raising bamboo rats, multiplying the herd to supply the breed to the market.
“After visiting many large bamboo rat breeding facilities in the Central Highlands provinces, I decided to conduct a trial breeding program first to see if the bamboo rats could adapt to the local climate conditions before expanding the scale.
At first, I bought 20 pairs of breeding bamboo rats (about 0.5kg/rat) to raise. After only 7 months of care, the bamboo rats gave birth.
In early 2024, the Farmers' Association introduced me to borrow 90 million VND from the Social Policy Bank of Xuyen Moc district. I expanded my barn and bought more bamboo rats," Mr. Hai added.
The model of raising Thai peach-cheeked bamboo rats - a model of raising specialty animals of Mr. Pham Thanh Hai, Phuoc An quarter (Phuoc Buu town, Xuyen Moc district, Ba Ria-Vung Tau province) has many prospects.
Currently, Mr. Hai's bamboo rat farm has about a hundred large and small bamboo rats, including 30 breeding pairs.
Many customers have known about the facility and contacted to place orders in advance. Mr. Hai is focusing on breeding the herd, aiming to provide breeding and commercial bamboo rats.
Every day he goes to cut bamboo in the garden and plants more elephant grass to proactively provide local food sources for the bamboo rats, thereby saving a lot of costs in raising them.
In Xuyen Moc district (Ba Ria-Vung Tau province), many models of specialty livestock have appeared such as castrated roosters (Hoa Hiep commune)...
Or the model of raising deer for velvet, raising stingless bees (Binh Chau commune); raising civets (Phuoc Thuan commune); raising Thai peach-cheeked bamboo rats (Phuoc Buu town); raising hybrid wild boars (Bung Rieng and Bong Trang communes)...
According to livestock farmers, local livestock and specialties have good resistance, are not picky eaters, are easy to raise, and adapt easily to many living conditions.
The development of raising specialty animals and livestock of wild animal origin that are allowed to be raised commercially in Xuyen Moc district (Ba Ria-Vung Tau province) brings economic value many times higher than other types of livestock.
However, if we develop a livestock model with wild animal origin as a spontaneous specialty without any connection to the product consumption market, the economic efficiency will not be high, even causing losses.
Therefore, in recent years, along with the development of herd size, most livestock households have focused on linking and finding stable consumption markets for specialty captive-bred products.
Up to now, the whole district is maintaining 107 professional associations/1,212 members and 17 professional branches/230 members.
“The expansion and development of livestock and specialty animal models has changed people's awareness of converting breeds to increase economic value and income.
At the same time, it is also the basis for moving towards brand building, linking production with local tourism , contributing to shifting the livestock structure, bringing higher economic efficiency to farmers", said Mr. Dinh Xuan Dau, Vice Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Xuyen Moc district (Ba Ria-Vung Tau province).
Source: https://danviet.vn/con-dac-san-nay-nuoi-thanh-cong-o-ba-ria-vung-tau-von-la-loai-thu-nguon-goc-dong-vat-hoang-da-2025011013022735.htm
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