Fear ... chicken feces

Poultry destruction pit in Bac Giang

The risk of outbreaks and the occurrence of avian influenza is very large, yet hundreds of farming households living on vegetable cultivation in the 3.4.5 ward Hiep Thanh ward, District 12 are still indifferent. indifferent when using chicken manure to fertilize vegetables. Vegetable growers said that all nearly a dozen vegetables grown only fertilize chicken manure.

Many people here say that they have to rent vegetable land, have spent tens of millions of dong, so they cannot stop. Over the past few months, when the risk of pandemic outbreaks, chicken manure also started to rise to VND 12,000 / bag (compared to the previous price of VND 6,000 / bag).

Predicting the difficulty of chicken manure, many farmers also buy chicken manure. Right next to the vegetable gardens of each household, there are large chunks of chicken dung with hundreds of bags that are not shielded, stinking and stinking. The amount of chicken manure consumed in this area is very large, on average each household purchases 300-400 bags of fertilizer / month (every 1,000m² uses 100 bags / month).

Many people living around are very worried about the use and storage of chicken manure in this area. They worry about themselves and worry about even vegetable growers who are directly exposed to chicken manure - a very dangerous source of bird flu infection.

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