The Breeding Center for High Quality Pigs honored at the Awarding Ceremony for the Best Performing Businesspeople and Enterprises in the Development of Sustainable Agriculture 2014
Updated on 07:14, Monday, 09/06/2014 (GMT+7)
The Awarding Ceremony for the Best Performing Businesspeople and Enterprises in the Development of Sustainable Agriculture 2014 took place on 31 May 2014 in Hanoi Opera House. The Award was initiated and hosted by the Association of Small and Medium Enterprises, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Association of Farmers in honoring individuals and enterprises for their best performance in the development of sustainable agriculture. On this occasion, the Breeding Center for High Quality Pigs, the Faculty of Animal Sciences and Aquaculture, (FASA) was awarded the honor for the second time to be one of the best outstanding enterprises.
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Award winners at the ceremony
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It is a noble award in honoring of persistent efforts of the lecturers and staff at the FASA and the Breeding Center for High Quality Pigs in production of the high quality lean pigs which has gradually contributed to the improvement of production efficiency and sustainable development for farmers despite of hardships challenging the animal production sector due to price fluctuation and adverse weather during the recent years.
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Delegation of the Breeding Center for High Quality Pigs, the FASA, and HUA
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It is a remarkable event when the country is making enormous efforts to overcome difficulties and challenges to perform comprehensive economic restructure, growth model innovation towards sustainable development in general and value-added oriented agricultural restructure in particular in order to successfully implement the Socio-economic Development Strategy 2011-2020.
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The Breeding Center for High Quality Pigs was established in 2011 under the Pig Breeding Project funded by MARD. For its remarkable achievements in the breeding of such precious pigs, the Center was honored to receive such honorable leaders as Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat, Vice Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee Tran Xuan Viet, etc. The visiting leaders highly valued the Center’s work and strongly supported for the promotion of this type of pigs.
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Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat
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on his visit to the Center in 2011
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The Center is developing a herd of the new stress negative Pietrain pigs and PiDu crossbreds with different genotypes. The new stress negative Pietrain and PiDu pigs have a good appearance and higher lean percentage of over 60%. They remain such characteristics like the old Pietrain ones but have been improved for fitter, healthier, and more adaptive to stressful environment. The PiDu pigs were recognized as one of the technical advances by MARD in 2011. Currently, pig semen produced daily at the Center is used to produce high lean pigs in Hanoi city and the surrounding areas. Up to date, the Center has provided approximately ten thousands of semen doses, and hundreds of new stress negative Pietrain and PiDu breeding pigs.
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