For the Provincial Livestock Association

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4.2.1.2 For Dong Nai Province

The formation of farm economy is closely linked to self-concentration and land accumulation. Appropriate land policy is the fundamental step to create the premise for sustainable and effective development of farms. First of all, the Provincial People's Committee continues to carry out the work of granting land use right certificates to farms so that they can have full economic benefits, ensure their peace of mind in investing, mobilizing capital and removing other difficulties, encouraging the effective exploitation of natural conditions and socio-economic conditions of the Province.

Quickly deploy the relocation of livestock farms to concentrated livestock planning areas in districts with large livestock areas such as Thong Nhat, Trang Bom, Vinh Cuu to create concentrated livestock areas and reduce environmental pollution. From there, invest in building new, expanding, and upgrading industrial processing facilities to attract raw materials from livestock farms. In fact, the Province has been planning and relocating concentrated livestock units to planning areas, but this planning still has many shortcomings such as the planning location is far from residential areas, causing difficulties in transporting goods, hiring labor, far from raw material areas, and difficulties in consuming products; The Provincial People's Committee and localities have not had policies to support farms moving to concentrated livestock farming areas, there are no policies to encourage farms to move, the infrastructure in concentrated livestock farming areas has not been completed, etc. Therefore, it is necessary to have detailed and specific plans and policies to support pig farms to move to livestock planning areas in the coming time.

The province needs to focus more on investing in science and technology, and have effective measures to encourage and mobilize the maximum participation of all components and classes in society in researching and transferring science and technology to serve agriculture and rural areas. Increase the import of advanced foreign technology, especially breeds, livestock, machinery and equipment with high productivity and quality suitable to the specific conditions of the locality and each farm in terms of capital, human resources and other factors.

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In order to ensure and proactively source veterinary medicine to serve the production and business process of farms, some proposals are as follows: The province and the agricultural sector

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The industry needs to invest in depth in the veterinary field in the long term, both in terms of highly skilled staff with synchronized key laboratories combined with international cooperation programs on diseases related to inflammation; Research and produce vaccines to proactively and effectively prevent diseases that have existed and will exist in the future in the province; Authorities should strengthen supervision of the veterinary medicine market in the province regarding drug quality and drug prices to ensure the interests of livestock farms.

Strengthening inspection and examination to protect the environment, ensuring food safety and hygiene, thereby helping livestock farms develop sustainably and increase product value. Local authorities need to have policies to manage livestock, minimize the occurrence of epidemics, and have measures to prevent epidemics. It is necessary to raise awareness for farmers through more classes on experience in protecting safety in livestock farming.

Forming demonstration models and providing agricultural extension guidance to apply advanced techniques to help livestock farms be safe and economically efficient.

The Provincial People's Committee plans, builds, renovates and upgrades infrastructure and equipment of fresh food markets, ensuring environmental hygiene and food safety, first of all in urban areas and industrial zones.

The province has a policy to call for and encourage FDI enterprises to invest in the livestock sector to support, help, and share with other pig farms in the province about knowledge, livestock techniques, technology, and consumption markets.

On the basis of the overall socio-economic planning, the agricultural sector, together with related sectors and localities in the province, must continue to develop, supplement and complete land use planning, invest in research to build raw material areas to maximize the advantages of the climate and land of the province and to proactively source animal feed for farms. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of the province have a plan to encourage the expansion of the area of soybeans, corn, cassava, potatoes, etc. domestically and in the province to reduce the import of raw materials from abroad. To do this, in the draft Strategy for the development of the crop sector until 2020, the Department of Crop Production has proposed to prioritize increasing the area

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Corn cultivation area will increase from 1.1 million hectares to 1.5-2 million hectares, with intensive farming applied, technical advances and new varieties introduced into production. Accordingly, part of the ineffective rice area will be converted to corn cultivation, while the summer-autumn crop season will be changed, increasing the winter corn area. In addition, it is necessary to soon apply new technology to increase crop productivity, develop livestock breeds using animal feed processed from domestic raw materials.

4.2.1.3 For the Provincial Livestock Association

The Livestock Association and provincial departments periodically organize exhibitions and fairs to introduce and promote typical high-quality, advanced products, advanced livestock equipment and technologies that FDI companies are currently applying for other farms to learn from. Organize exchanges, learning sessions, and experience sharing between livestock farms, in which FDI companies are encouraged to actively participate in these activities to share knowledge and livestock experience with other livestock farms.

It is necessary to provide full information on prices, markets, input materials, domestic and foreign product consumption markets so that farms can proactively produce and do business through seminars and experience exchanges.

The Association is a bridge for the province's livestock farms to exchange information, reflect information and requests from farms about the production and consumption of products to relevant agencies as well as disseminate and propagate policies and legal documents related to the livestock industry. Timely grasp the difficulties and aspirations of the farms to have measures proposed to the superior authorities for timely assistance.

4.2.2 Micro solutions

4.2.2.1 Solutions for increasing herd size

Increasing the herd size is a condition for applying advanced and modern techniques to production, aiming at chemical production to meet market demand. Besides, the herd size greatly affects the efficiency of livestock farming due to taking advantage of the advantages of scale.

In order to plan the overall livestock industry in general within the whole province, to form key livestock areas for the main livestock species.

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such as pigs, to increase the herd size of livestock farms. Therefore, some proposed solutions to increase are as follows:

Based on the overall socio-economic development plan of the province, the agricultural sector and related sectors, the Provincial People's Committee and districts need to implement long-term planning, stabilize industrial livestock farming areas, and concentrate farms down to the district and commune levels. Continue to build, supplement and complete land use planning, invest in research to specifically identify specialized livestock farming areas to maximize the advantages of climate and land of each different region. On that basis, develop a specific and scientific economic development plan for livestock farms for each region and locality. In addition, encourage conversion, transfer, land consolidation, plot exchange, etc. to create land funds for land allocation and land lease to organizations and individuals with feasible investment projects approved by competent authorities. Convert ineffective farming areas, especially in midland and hilly areas, etc., to develop livestock farms. In addition, the formation of farm economy is closely linked to self-concentration and land accumulation. Appropriate land policy is the fundamental step to create the premise for sustainable and effective development of farm economy. First of all, the province and district need to focus on and urgently carry out the work of granting land use right certificates to farms with full economic benefits to ensure their peace of mind in investing, mobilizing capital and removing other difficulties, encouraging the effective exploitation of hilly and deserted areas, while taking into account long-term social and ecological environmental effects in order to expand the scale of livestock farming and increase herd size.

Quickly deploy the relocation of livestock farms to concentrated livestock planning areas with 139 concentrated livestock areas in 8 districts and Long Khanh town with a total area of over 15,674 hectares in districts with large livestock areas such as Thong Nhat, Trang Bom, Vinh Cuu to create concentrated livestock areas and reduce environmental pollution. Continue to implement Resolution 04 on investment in infrastructure construction in pilot areas for concentrated livestock development of the People's Committee. Accordingly, the province will invest selectively and focus on pilot projects instead of investing widely as before. Specifically, the whole province has 4 districts, including: Thong Nhat, Trang Bom, Xuan Loc, Cam My selected as pilot areas.

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to implement. Each district also selects pilot projects for effective investment implementation. Currently, 3/4 districts have issued plans to implement pilot infrastructure investment and have initially brought about efficiency. Specifically, Thong Nhat district has invested in nearly 12km of roads and 20km of power lines in 5/10 planning areas and needs to continue to implement in the remaining areas. From there, invest in building new, expanding, and upgrading industrial processing facilities to attract raw materials from livestock farms. In fact, the Province has been planning and relocating concentrated livestock units to planning areas, but this planning still has many shortcomings such as the planning location is far from residential areas, causing difficulties in transporting goods, hiring labor, far from raw material areas, and difficulties in consuming products; The Provincial People's Committee and localities have not had policies to support farms to relocate to concentrated livestock areas, there are no policies to encourage farms to relocate, the infrastructure in concentrated livestock areas has not been completed,... Therefore, it is necessary to have detailed and specific plans and policies to support pig farms to relocate to livestock planning areas in the coming time such as completing infrastructure in concentrated livestock areas, supporting funding for relocation according to Decision No. 36/2013/QD-UBND with levels from

5,000,000 VND/month/farm depending on the scale of farming and support for 3 months, creating a stable consumption market for farms,... to help farms feel secure to expand production.

Speed up the process of granting farm certificates: When granted farm certificates, they will be able to enjoy preferential policies during the production process, creating favorable conditions for them to confidently increase the size of their herds.

Local authorities need to have policies to manage livestock, minimize the occurrence of epidemics, and have measures to prevent epidemics. Farmers must be raised aware through more classes on experience in protecting safety in livestock farming. The state needs to have insurance policies for livestock farms to limit risks for the farm, then they will be bold enough to expand the scale of livestock farming.

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4.2.2.2 Input factor solutions

Firstly , about animal feed: to proactively source feed in animal husbandry and limit dependence on raw materials for animal feed processing from abroad. Some proposed solutions are as follows:

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of the province have a plan to encourage the expansion of the area of soybeans, corn, cassava, potatoes, etc. domestically and in the province to reduce the import of raw materials from abroad. To do this, in the draft Strategy for the development of the crop sector until 2020, the Department of Crop Production has proposed to prioritize increasing the corn growing area from 1.1 million hectares to 1.5-2 million hectares, applying intensive farming, introducing technical advances and new varieties into production. Accordingly, part of the ineffective rice area will be converted to corn, while the summer-autumn crop season will be changed, increasing the winter corn area. In addition, it is necessary to soon apply new technology to increase crop productivity, develop livestock breeds using animal feed processed from domestic raw materials. In order to build a raw material area for animal feed production, the State needs to soon have policies to support farmers in converting crops. The State and credit institutions should have preferential policies for businesses to borrow capital to invest in creating raw material areas. In addition, businesses, especially animal feed processing businesses, must act as a bridge, signing consumption contracts so that farmers can be completely assured in production. When the source of raw materials for animal feed processing is self-sufficient, animal feed processing businesses will not have to pay additional transportation costs, import taxes on raw materials, etc. This will both contribute to reducing production costs and stimulating agricultural production, creating jobs and income for farmers.

It is necessary to diversify the sources of imported animal feed ingredients by allowing foreign enterprises to import and distribute directly to Vietnamese enterprises, building an animal feed trading floor, increasing the capacity to reserve raw materials such as corn, soybean meal, fish meal, etc. for a long time. Strengthening propaganda and guidance on the use of industrial animal feed to increase the rate of use of this type of feed in livestock farming; From a macro perspective, the State needs to have policies to stabilize the macro economy, stabilize monetary policies (exchange rates, interest rates) and essential goods such as gasoline; have preferential policies for enterprises.

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activities in the field of animal feed such as simplifying import procedures, reducing import taxes,...

Research institutes and scientists need to focus on researching feed mixing formulas suitable for our country's livestock farming conditions, soon introducing genetically modified crops into production; encouraging fishmeal processing; encouraging research to create new raw materials such as: supplementary feed, feed additives.

The Provincial People's Committee and specialized agencies have policies to support capital to help domestic animal feed processing facilities improve financial resources, technology, capacity and management experience as well as expand production scale and build long-term business strategies, meeting the demand for animal feed of farms to limit dependence on animal feed of foreign processing facilities. In addition, domestic animal feed processing facilities need to change their production thinking, have long-term business strategies, be creative, take advantage of market knowledge, culture, customer psychology and limit outsourcing production for FDI enterprises to improve production capacity and product consumption.

Implementing a 3-party model: bank - farm - animal feed processing facility, in which the bank supports capital and interest rates for animal feed processing facilities and livestock farms, animal feed processing facilities provide animal feed to farms with many forms of support such as support, consumption of animal feed output throughout the farm's livestock cycle, applying reasonable selling prices, avoiding sudden price increases. In addition, the specialized functional agencies of the Province strengthen inspection and supervision of animal feed processing facilities in the Province on product quality, product selling prices, publicly posting product selling prices; strictly punish animal feed processing facilities, animal feed agents that speculate for profit, increase selling prices causing market manipulation.

Second, about breeds: In order to prepare and proactively source good breeds for livestock farms, some recommendations are as follows:

The livestock industry in general and pig farms in Dong Nai apply scientific and technical achievements in breeding work. Strengthen the development of breeding pig herds, upgrade the province's livestock breeding facilities to ensure proactive breeding sources through good management of breeding sources from outside, tighten livestock quarantine, minimize external epidemics, ensure

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quality of breeding stock. Pay attention to crossbreeding measures for good breeding stock, strive to proactively source breeding stock locally. The province has policies to encourage investors within the province to build large-scale farms specializing in providing high-quality breeding pigs to meet the breeding needs of livestock farms in the province.

In addition, there should be measures to encourage and promote businesses and scientific research agencies to research and select breeds and import advanced breeds from around the world to create good breeds, creating conditions to gradually help Dong Nai's livestock products become more competitive.

Third , regarding veterinary medicine: In order to ensure and proactively provide veterinary medicine sources to serve the production and business processes of farms, some suggestions are as follows:

The province and the agricultural sector need to invest in depth in the veterinary field.

long-term in terms of highly skilled staff with synchronized key laboratories combined with international cooperation programs on diseases related to inflammatory pathogens. The research center under the Provincial Veterinary Department needs to research and produce vaccines to proactively and effectively prevent diseases that have existed and will exist in the future in the province. To do this, it requires investment support from the Provincial People's Committee budget to build laboratories, invest in equipment and tools for research; have policies to create conditions and support research staff such as sending them for in-depth research training at universities and research institutes, and allowances for research staff.

The authorities strengthen supervision of the veterinary medicine market in the province regarding the quality of medicine and the selling price of medicine to ensure the rights of livestock farms. Specifically, they regularly inspect veterinary medicine stores and agents regarding the posting of selling prices and checking product quality; violators will be fined appropriately depending on the severity.

Farm owners need to coordinate with provincial and local veterinary agencies in disease prevention and control through timely and accurate monitoring and disease information to provincial veterinary agencies for timely handling measures. Monitoring and information systems must be built from province to district and must be implemented regularly and closely.

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