Raising chickens without chemicals to export

 

Mr. Nguyen Minh Kha is analyzing the difference between domestic and imported chicken products

Raising chickens without chemicals

With the desire to export his products, two years ago, Mr. Nguyen Minh Kha stopped the contract to raise chickens for a foreign company and switched to a link chain of clean products which was invested by a Japanese company and oriented toward export market. He confidently applied new process to his 30 chicken farms although raising chickens with Japanese import standards is much more difficult. All process from feeding to raising must meet stricter standards, especially the application of antibiotics must be limited as much as possible; no yellow substance must be found in chicken food, antibiotics must not be applied in the final phase in order to keep the chickens clean for production. According to Mr. Kha: “Although raising chickens with Japanese import standards is much more difficult, but Vietnamese farmers can be thoroughly able to meet them”.

When Vietnamese poultry products with export standards can meet such a strict market, it also means that Vietnamese farm feeding products will have more chances to join promising export markets. This is also an orientation which contributes to the reputation of domestic product quality, which is one of the most important factors when breeding sector joins international integration.

Active in integration

Recently, domestic chicken products have been under high pressure of competing with cheap imported chickens. Chicken farm owners have been suffering two periods of huge loss when imported chicken products dominated the domestic market.

Mr. Kha has been actively applying this new process. He strongly believes that domestic chicken products still have fair chances to compete with imported chicken products when joining international playground in spite of a rough start. His first shipment with Japanese standards was consumed in domestic market due to an issue incurred in veterinary process. This is one of the major difficulties for enterprises and farm owners in this clean feeding chain. Mr. Kha said that: “Recently, functional authorities have been actively handling paperwork and procedures to create favorable conditions for domestic chicken products to be exported to Japanese market. Up to now, most of procedures have been handled. I have been also actively fulfilling the export procedures for my shipments.

 Not only export market, the competition within domestic market also catches the attention of the farm owner. According to Mr. Kha: “Thanks to huge investment from breeds to farm system with advanced technology, my farms are now evaluated as highly as those in developed countries”. Now he hopes that the Government will have more practical policies to support and create a more transparent environment for domestic breeding farm owners to join the world’s integration.

Le Quyen

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