{"id":8132,"date":"2017-01-14T11:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T04:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/?p=8132"},"modified":"2017-01-14T11:01:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-14T04:01:32","slug":"vua-trung-cut-va-du-an-tao-bao-xua-nay-chua-ai-lam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/vua-trung-cut-va-du-an-tao-bao-xua-nay-chua-ai-lam\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018King\u2019 of Quail Eggs and a Bold Project No One Has Ever Attempted"},"content":{"rendered":"

Besides having Vietnam's largest quail flock, Ph\u1ea1m V\u0103n Th\u1ecbnh of H\u1ed1 Nai Ward, Bi\u00ean H\u00f2a City, \u0110\u1ed3ng Nai, is pursuing his ambition to build a clean quail-egg canning factory, a bold project no one has undertaken before.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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We visited Ph\u1ea1m V\u0103n Th\u1ecbnh's home as spring quietly approached. Th\u1ecbnh sat \u201cimmersed\u201d among millions of quail eggs alongside many workers. On each of these days leading up to T\u1ebft, Th\u1ecbnh supplies the market with 6 million quail eggs, 4 times the normal daily volume.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"pham-van-thinh\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Ph\u1ea1m V\u0103n Th\u1ecbnh<\/span><\/p>\n

Only after bankruptcy\u2026 building climate-controlled housing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I have known the H\u1ed1 Nai quail-farming village since its early days around 30 years ago. Back then, only a few households raised quail, with just a few hundred birds per household. They raised them right inside their homes, eating and sleeping alongside them. The smell of quail droppings was everywhere. To hatch chicks, they put eggs into burlap sacks and warmed them with oil lamps; there were no industrial incubators like today.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Th\u1ecbnh's family was among the first quail-farming households in H\u1ed1 Nai's quail village, starting with 700 birds. Each day, Th\u1ecbnh and his siblings took turns washing water troughs, mixing feed, feeding the quail, collecting eggs\u2026 Day after day, the family lived entirely on income from quail.<\/span><\/p>\n

About 10 years ago, an epidemic swept through the quail-farming village, leaving many farmers with nothing. \u201cMy farm, with thousands of laying quail and eggs, was wiped out, costing me a billion VND. That was not all: I was also a poultry feed dealer. Many quail farmers hit by the epidemic could not pay their feed debts to my family. I was nearly bankrupt, with debts of about ten billion VND. The shock almost crushed my family and me; we thought we would never recover\u2026\u201d Th\u1ecbnh confided.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Th\u1ecbnh said that the outbreak taught him that the main reasons quails frequently fell ill and contracted epidemics were inadequately enclosed housing, poor control of people entering and leaving the farm, unsafe water and other environmental hygiene issues\u2026 Gathering his remaining capital, he decided to invest in planning and building quail farms based on a closed industrial farming model. He now has 4 quail farms with more than 200.000 birds raised entirely in cooled buildings with a ventilation system that completely eliminates odors. The farm also has its own drinking-water filtration system for the quails and fishponds to treat livestock waste. Visitors must pass through a disinfection system before entering.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using a professional farming system keeps female quail healthy and disease-free, with high egg-laying rates. Their eggs are consistently uniform in size, color and quality, free of antibiotics and disinfected through an ozone system before leaving the warehouse. \u201cI obtain health-check documents and test samples from the flock every month to ensure clean quail eggs and give consumers peace of mind,\u201d Th\u1ecbnh shared.<\/span><\/p>\n

Helping clean quail eggs soar<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Previously, Th\u1ecbnh and his siblings had to wash each quail drinking tray, collect every egg and scoop up manure daily. These tasks are now automated. Remarkably, Th\u1ecbnh invented the system himself. At set times, the conveyor starts and carries eggs or manure out, leaving workers only to load trays and take them to the collection station. Th\u1ecbnh says he now sells more than 200 million clean quail eggs domestically and exports more than 3 million to Japan each year. \u201cJapanese importers inspect and assess quality and antibiotic residues very strictly, so selling to them requires standardized farming processes and eggs free of antibiotics,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

After we watched workers sort eggs and pack trays, Th\u1ecbnh took us to see his \u201clegacy project.\u201d The young farmer\u2019s short, stocky figure radiated a willingness to think and act boldly. Perhaps no other quail farmer in H\u1ed1 Nai village dared to make such breakthroughs to help quail \u201cfly higher and farther\u201d and develop the craft village steadily and sustainably. Th\u1ecbnh stopped before a plot of about 300 m2, where a well-organized factory had arisen. He said this was a VND 5 billion closed-loop clean quail egg canning factory using modern Japanese technology, set to start in 2017. Eggs entering the factory would be washed, steamed, shelled, and canned entirely automatically.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

To create a supply of clean quail eggs sufficient for the canning factory, Th\u1ecbnh said he would continue upgrading 4 climate-controlled quail farms. These 4 farms would be almost 100% automated, while the number of laying quails would rise to 500,000 in 2017. Th\u1ecbnh would then supply the market with 400 million clean quail eggs each year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before implementing this project, Th\u1ecbnh surveyed the market and meal portions at local industrial parks and kindergartens. He found that quail eggs formed a substantial part of children's and workers' daily meals.<\/span><\/p>\n

I told Th\u1ecbnh that \u0110\u1ed3ng Nai's total quail population was now down more than 50% from the same period last year, to fewer than 4 million birds. Farmers had been leaving quail farming throughout the past year, and quite a few now had to sell off their cages and facilities cheaply and switch occupations because of continuous losses. This was because quail egg prices had fallen for a long time and remained quite low, while animal feed prices had kept rising since the start of the year. Investing in a quail farm at this point was essentially a high-risk investment. Hearing this, Th\u1ecbnh smiled: \u2018The main reason farmers abandon their flocks is the spontaneous rush into quail farming when profits are high. I do not follow trends. My investments have always been carefully planned and sustainable, with established buyers. Every day, I can tell whether I am making a profit or a loss. I am not afraid of failure\u2026\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kh\u00f4ng ch\u1ec9 c\u00f3 \u0111\u00e0n c\u00fat l\u1edbn nh\u1ea5t Vi\u1ec7t Nam, anh Ph\u1ea1m V\u0103n Th\u1ecbnh \u1edf ph\u01b0\u1eddng H\u1ed1 Nai, th\u00e0nh ph\u1ed1 Bi\u00ean H\u00f2a (\u0110\u1ed3ng Nai) c\u00f2n \u0111ang th\u1ef1c hi\u1ec7n kh\u00e1t v\u1ecdng x\u00e2y d\u1ef1ng nh\u00e0 m\u00e1y \u0111\u00f3ng h\u1ed9p tr\u1ee9ng c\u00fat s\u1ea1ch \u2013 m\u1ed9t d\u1ef1 \u00e1n t\u00e1o b\u1ea1o x\u01b0a nay ch\u01b0a ai l\u00e0m. Ch\u00fang t\u00f4i gh\u00e9 nh\u00e0 Ph\u1ea1m V\u0103n […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8134,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8135,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8132\/revisions\/8135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yup.edu.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}