Animal breeding industry eyes 4% growth of production value
The Department of Livestock Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has set several targets for 2018, including a growth rate of 4% in production value.
The other targets are to have more than 5.4 million tonnes of meat of all kinds, 11.58 billion poultry eggs and one million tonne of milk, a year-on-year surge of 3.8%, 8.8% and 14.1%.
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Organic farming process and safe breeding in accordance with VietGAP standards will be developed. Also, the department will promote market forecast and recommend measures for the MARD to remove bottlenecks for products with great potential for exports like meat, chicken and dairy products.
Domestic production will be enhanced in parallel with the development of free-of-disease breeding zones.
Value of husbandry production in 2017 totalled more than VND230 trillion (US$10.1 billion), rising 3.05% compared to that of 2016.
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