Da Bac district brings indigenous pig products to the commodity market

Indigenous Pigs are one of the special famous livestock of Da Bac highland district.

The pig raising family of Muong Chieng Commune (Da Bac) manages the Indigenous pig herds at the cages to protect from the diseases.

With more than 16,000 pigs, the local indigenous pig population in the district accounts for more than 50% of the total population of the province. Pig breeders are mainly ethnic minorities of Muong and Dao ethnic groups. There is a fact that the habit of raising indigenous pigs popularly has led to uncontrolled diseases. In addition, the risk of genetic loss due to crossbreeding, crossbreeding among other pig species, inbreeding quality, and near blood inbreeding, a decrease in the number of originally indigenous pigs at the time of the survey before 2014 was at at the urgent level. One of the objectives of the Project is to make changes, change the method of old livestock raising to managed livestock raising.

The 6 selected communes were Tan Pheo, Giap Dat, Muong Chieng, Cao Son, Doan Ket and Hien Luong, propaganda and dissemination activities together with technical training on animal husbandry, care and disease prevention for indigenous pigs to the vet staff of the communes have been implemented to support the farming households for actively deploying. In particular, each commune has formed a group of indigenous pig breeding. Since April of 2018, the Project has provided initial support to the activities of cooperative groups. Specifically, they assisted in buying and handing sows and male pigs of breeding directly to 90 households participating in the model, each household had 2 sows, each cooperative group had a male pig. The delivered pigs were purchased from local indigenous pig producers in the area with careful selection and healthy, disease-free, ready for breeding.