Becoming a billionaire thanks to high-tech chicken farming

TP - After many years working as a construction worker and cyclo driver in Dong Nai and Ho Chi Minh City, but the unstable jobs were not enough to make a living, Mr. Dinh Ngoc Khuong decided to return to Binh Duong to raise chickens and became a billionaire with an income of about 800 million VND per month.

Mr. Khuong at the chicken farm. Photo: HC

Mr. Dinh Ngoc Khuong (born in 1967, residing in Nuoc Vang Hamlet, An Binh Commune, Phu Giao District, Binh Duong Province) said that when he was not yet 20 years old, he left his hometown of Nam Dinh for Binh Duong Province. At that time, there was not much land for farming, so Mr. Khuong traveled to Dong Nai to work as a construction worker. Seeing that the construction job was hard, he moved to Ho Chi Minh City to drive a cyclo to make a living. At first, his income was enough to live on, but as customers became fewer and fewer, Mr. Khuong finally gave up and returned to Binh Duong to start a business.

With the little money he had earned after many years of struggling in a foreign land, Mr. Khuong decided to raise pigs. More than 3,000 pigs were about to be sold when the blue ear disease struck, forcing them to be destroyed.

Mr. Khuong was penniless. In 2012, after learning from books and friends, he decided to borrow money to invest in a cold chicken farm using technology. At first, Mr. Khuong only dared to raise a few thousand chickens for testing, then thanks to continuous high profits, he expanded the scale to tens of thousands of chickens.

The high-tech model of raising laying hens is to change the open farm into a closed farm, close the ceiling, cover with canvas, design a cooling water system and especially a ventilation system to cool the barn with giant fans. Currently, with a total farm area of ​​about 25,000m2, built according to biosafety standards, Mr. Khuong raises laying hens in a closed process chain for an average monthly income of about 800 million VND.

Mr. Trinh Duc Dung - Chairman of the Farmers' Association of Phu Giao district said that Mr. Dinh Ngoc Khuong was nominated by Binh Duong province and voted by the Central Final Council of the Pride of Vietnamese Farmers Program as one of 63 outstanding farmers nationwide to be awarded the title "Outstanding Vietnamese Farmer 2021".

The high-tech egg-laying farm consists of 40,000 parent chickens. On average, the flock lays 15,000 - 17,000 eggs per day. Large and beautiful eggs are selected to be put into the incubator. “Before the automatic line, the steps such as fumigation, preservation, candling and hatching took a lot of time and the efficiency was only 70-80%. Since investing in a modern egg incubation line, the rate of successful eggs has increased almost absolutely,” said Mr. Khuong.

In addition to raising laying hens, Mr. Khuong also has a commercial chicken farm of 50,000 square meters, raising 600,000 chickens per batch and selling about 900 tons of chicken meat per month. The entire chicken raising process is automated, so the farm does not need much labor. It takes 60 days to raise chickens in an open cage, but with a cold cage, it only takes 52 days for chickens to be sold.

Huong Chi