Xót far from chicken farming

It is our mood to meet poultry farmers in two communes in Chi Linh district (Hai Duong), where the epidemic has just been announced.

Piling up debt

Catching chickens for destruction at a household in Chi Minh commune (Hai Duong)

12:30 on 11-11, one day after Hai Duong announced the epidemic in five communes, Mr. Duong Van Dang's family (Hamlet, Chi Minh commune, Chi Linh district) still did not have lunch.'No more stomachs to eat' - Mr. Dang said. He and his children are sitting in the house, waiting for the commune officials to bring 6,000 chickens of three sons to destroy. Mr. Dang's wife went out to eat with her neighbors, or at midday, the commune would destroy her chickens, rushing to run away from the bowl, her face was brainless.

Twenty years of living on chicken farming, his seven children grew up thanks to chickens. All seven people, including three people, were living with their grandparents, followed by their parents' breeding career. Mr. Dang's family is considered one of the largest poultry households in Chi Linh district.

In this case alone, Dang's seven children raised a total of over 10,000 chickens. All of these chickens must be destroyed in the afternoon of 11-11. The debt of the previous year's epidemic has not been paid off, and now it has added new debts, estimated to be more than VND 200 million without knowing how to manage the debt.

According to Nguyen Duc Tien, deputy secretary of Chi Minh commune, the whole commune has over 15,000 birds. In November 11, the commune destroyed over 10,000 animals and is expected to destroy all poultry in the coming days. Going around the villages in the commune, everywhere, the sound of loudspeakers can be heard about the situation of epidemic and poultry destruction. At the gate of the villages, a notice of the avian influenza epidemic area was also set up to warn people.

Living with the worry of disease

Unlike Chi Minh commune, bird flu occurs in Cong Hoa commune (Chi Linh) mainly on water birds. It is not known where the source of the epidemic is spreading, only that Cong Hoa commune is located on the road to transport poultry from Yen Dung (the place of outbreak of Bac Giang province) to Quang Ninh, Hai Phong.

When we were at Bui Thi Di's family (Cau Thap village), regret seemed to remain on the face of this woman. Her family raised 350 meat ducks, estimated to sell 20,000 VND / head. Before selling out, the number of ducks in the flock died in turn. Before Hai Duong announced the epidemic, all the ducks of Mrs. Di's family were destroyed. Ms. Di did not know anything about money to support the destruction, only briefly saw the debt of seed money and food cost of tens of million dong.

The sadness of Ms Di is even thicker when she learns that 150 ducks raising eggs from their son are also destroyed because there are children in the herd that die due to the flu. The number of ducks has reached the calving age since early November, although it has been vaccinated but still dies. From the day the duck was destroyed, her son was sadly unable to do anything.

If her family regrets the number of ducks destroyed, Ms. Do Thi Tin's family (Chi Nghia 1 village, Cong Hoa commune) lives in anxiety about the spread of the disease. 500 ducks of Ms. Tin's house have not found any infected children, and if they can go well, they will earn about 5 million VND.

However, from the day the commune had the epidemic, the number of ducks that were circulating in the field was not destroyed but forced to move to live with the people in her family's house. 500 ducks, each child is fat and fat, each weighs about 2kg, locked into a gable corner. Because they cannot feed themselves, they eat her 450,000 dongs of rice every day and emit a pile of manure but there is no cleaning water, so they stink. Lo because she could not consume the ducks, Ms. Tin was even more afraid if the duck became infected, unfortunately spread to people.

Like all other poultry farmers in the district, Tin's family is facing a million debt from deferred payment when buying breeds and buying food. Ms. Tin said: 'The situation of epidemics like this, there is no one to sell. This case is considered to be a loss, only hope that the State will partly support to reduce the debt burden. '

HUNG HUNG