The delegation visited the closed circuit pig breeding model by T& T 159 company in the hilly area of Su Ngoi commune, Hoa Binh city. The farm rears the pigs following a closed circuit chain to ensure food safety. Its main products consist of cows and pigs, both breeding stock and commercial products. The company has imported cattle from Thailand and Australia with the aim of improving local cattle breeds. Cows are usually raised using the traditional method and mostly fed with fermented forage.
Visiting breeding farm of T&T 159 Joint Stock Company
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All livestock wastes are treated to avoid environmental pollution. Apart from animal breedings, the farm grows vegetables, potatoes, trees and plant flowers to create a balanced ecological system. Its products are available on the Hanoi market, both through wholesale chain and retail stores.
The delegation also visited the educational farm Edufarm or Edufarm Academy, in Thuy Xuan Tien commune, Chuong My District. Edufarm offers 5 modules: Vietnamese house culture, animal breeding diversification in agriculture; insect diversity, seafood diversity and Vietnamese folk games.
Visiting traditional herb garden at Edufarm
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The cultural Vietnamese house module entails a traditional house with backyard pond, brick yard and vegetable furrows. Also, there are themed houses such as flower house, book house, clay house and thatched house.
The vegetation module includes over 700 types of trees typical of the tropical monsoon climate, ranging from fruit to seed trees. Especially, this module also exhibits ecological environment in agriculture including terraced field, palm field, tea plantation and traditional herb garden.
The insect module showcases a diversity of insects used in agricultural production such as bees, butterflies, moths, ladybugs, lemongrass beetles, and fireflies, all displayed in interactive rooms.
In the aquatic and sea product module, there are specialized rooms on aquatic and sea products. The Vietnamese folk games module includes activities such as playing O An Quan (Mandarin’s Box), danh khang (tip-cat) or soccer, jumping rope, playing hide-and-seek.
Besides, the farm has a mini agricultural-themed museum showing the pride of Vietnamese agriculture including catfi sh, coffee and rice, the national foreign exchange earners. Accoding to Doctor Su Thanh Long, founder of Edufarm, the farm offers different educational tours to groups of different ages who want to know about agricultural production, especially to introduce the sustainable and organic farm model, as well as smart agriculture.
According to the Director of the Hanoi Livestock Breeding Center Ta Van Tuong, Hanoi is home to many craft villages which produce diverse farm specialties, able to draw a large number of visitors. Therefore, the goals of the visit are not only to help the executives and farm owners learn about the livestock model that assures food safety, but also for them to study the farm model associated with ecological tourism. ”The advancement of agri-tourism will lead to many opportunities for agricultural products and craft villages,” Tuong said.
