The farm economy has made certain contributions to the development of the province’s agricultural sector in particular and the process of the province’s economic development in general. The models of the farm economic development in Binh Duong is being promoted towards high technologies for sustainable development. 

Farmsteads in Binh Duong have attached special importance to application of high technologies in production. In picture: This is an automatic water spraying system for orchards applied by farmers in Tan Uyen district’s Hieu Liem commune

Development of agriculture, farmers and rural areas promoted

Farm economic models in Binh Duong are now very diversified. According to a report by provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD), the whole province is home to 961 farmsteads with total farming area of more than 10,200 hectares. Each farmstead covers around 11 hectares. Among them, there are more than 600 farmsteads on perennial trees and the remaining ones on animal husbandry and aquaculture.

With support policies on sci-tech transfer, trade promotion and trademark building, Binh Duong’s farm economy has reached considerable achievements. Farmsteads play an important role in the local agricultural production and they are also a place supplying materials for the local processing industry and applying new sci-tech advancements into the local agricultural production.

To Bui Quang Chanh, Head of the Agricultural Department under provincial DARD, farm economy is one of the highlights of Binh Duong’s agricultural sector. Farmsteads herein are typical models in generating products with high quality and increasing production efficiency at maximum level on a hectare of farming land. They have also contributed to creating jobs for the local rural laborers.

Many local farmers have actually secured a new life thanks to developing farm economic farm models. There are a lot of farm economic models with the annual income of billions of dong. For example, the Doan Minh Chien farmstead of Doan Minh Chien in Tan Uyen district’s Tan Dinh commune reaches the annual revenue of more than VND2bln; the Phuong Uyen farmstead in Tan Uyen district’s Hieu Liem, more than VND6bln; the farmstead of Tran Van Van in Ben Cat district’s Lai Hung commune, more than VND3bln; the farmstead of Le Van Phan in Ben Cat district’s Tru Van Tho commune, nearly VND4bln….The owners of the effective farmsteads have also actively made contributions to the local socio-economic development.

Creating breakthroughs thanks to high technology

The owners of farmsteads in Binh Duong have attached special importance to applying high technologies in production. Doan Minh Chien, the owner of a high-tech based pomelo growing farmstead in Tan Uyen district’s Tan Dinh commune said: “In the face of soil conditions changed due to the local rapid process of industrialization and modernization, farmers must make investment towards high technologies. I has so far developed an automatic water spraying system, helping reducing costs and improving my orchard’s productivity”.

The efficiency of investment in high technologies has been expressed most obviously at farmsteads on animal husbandry. Binh Duong is now home to 43 high-tech based pig farmsteads with 120,000 pigs and 71 high-tech based chicken farmstead with more than 2.8mln chickens. Thanks to investment of high technologies, many animal husbandry farmsteads were very safe before diseases in poultry and cattle over the past time.

Nguyen Van Dong, Deputy Head of provincial Veterinary Department said that many farmstead owners and breeding households have poured capital into investment and application of high technologies. They have also attached special importance to treating waste by biogas systems and controlling over diseases in poultry and cattle.

Possibly speaking, farm economy has affirmed its position in agricultural production and showed its suitability to the development process of the province. It is an important source making contributions to the province’s program on new rural construction. But, the Circular No.27/2011/TT-BNNPTNT issued by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development providing for criteria and procedures of issuing certificate of farm economy has limited the number of the local farmsteads in recent two years. There are still some shortcomings from the circular for change so that the local farmsteads have been granted certificate of farm economy to be able to enjoy preferential policies on loan, sci-tech transfer…for better development.

Reported by Da Binh-Translated by K.T