Earning billions from goat farming.

At the end of August, Mr. Nguyen Van Truong's family in Dong Gia village, Xuan Luong commune, prepared to sell their herd of goats. Mr. Truong said: "Since the beginning of the year, my family has sold nearly 54 tons of commercial goats. Due to the high selling price, my family estimates a profit of over 1 billion VND, 400 million VND higher than last year."

Mr. Nguyen Van Truong takes care of his family's herd of goats.

It is known that Mr. Truong's family has been raising goats since 2016. Initially, they mainly raised local goats, which were small and free-range on the hills, prone to disease and slow-growing. In 2021, after visiting a model farm in Bo Ha commune, Mr. Truong invested in building spacious and well-ventilated barns for raising goats. The goat breed was also replaced with imported breeds, mainly the Boer breed from Thailand. The goats' feed includes elephant grass, banana plants, corn, and rice bran. Banana plants and corn are fed fresh; elephant grass is chopped, fermented with probiotics, and then mixed with rice bran for the goats to eat. "The biggest fear when raising goats is diarrhea. However, since feeding them spent grains from distiller's grains and beer, it has helped prevent it," Mr. Truong shared his experience.

Because goat farming is highly profitable, in recent years, Mr. Truong's family has sold about 3-4 batches of goats annually, each batch consisting of 400-500 animals, becoming a large-scale goat farming household in the commune. According to Mr. Truong, the market is currently quite favorable, with almost no goats to sell. Traders from many provinces and cities, such as Hanoi , Phu Tho, and Hung Yen, come to buy them.

In fact, it's not just Mr. Truong's family; currently, there are about 30 households in Xuan Luong commune raising goats using this method, with a scale of hundreds of goats per year per household. These are concentrated in the villages of Nghe, Dong Gian, Dong Gia, and Lang Duoi. The total income from goat farming for households throughout the commune reaches tens of billions of VND. Mr. Le Hong Viet, Chairman of the People's Committee of Xuan Luong commune, said: “In the coming time, we will continue to focus on directing the expansion of this goat farming model. This includes establishing cooperatives to facilitate access to preferential loans, exchange and learn techniques, and guarantee product sales; aiming to build a collective brand, "Xuan Luong Goat," to enhance product value.”

Text and photos: Thanh Nam

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