Vietnam: Safe breeding against epidemic diseases in border areas

"The difficulty emerges the wisdom" As a large pepper growing area of Binh Phuoc province, in the past, Bu Dop had to face the situation of continuously low pepper prices and disease destroying orchards. From "the difficult to reveal the wisdom", taking advantage of the old or dead pepper area, along with the source of leaves from the living pillars, people have converted to a circular economy model combining goat farming and pepper farming. . With more than 40 goats including meat goats and sows, Mrs. Tran Thi Lan's household, Tan Lap hamlet, Tan Thanh commune, Bu Dop district has an additional income of about 40 million VND/year. In addition, the source of fertilizer from goat farming used to fertilize pepper gardens helps to reduce input costs and pepper plants can grow healthier thanks to organic fertilizers. “Most of the feed for the goats is used from available sources in the field such as acacia leaves grown as pepper posts, grass grown in pepper gardens and maize. As for ...