Economic and technical efficacy for meat goat production of farmers’ households in Binh Tan district, Vinh Long province
The objective of this study aimed to evaluate the current production, economic efficiency and to propose the solutions for enhancing the income of households raising meat goat in Binh Tan district of Vinh Long province, which had a sweet potato area of 13.597 ha (2018). Following method suggested by Solvin (2014), 140 households (90 with and 50 without goats) in 5 villages were interviewed and investigated. The number of studied households followed the suggestion of Solvin, the descriptive study was used to evaluate the current production, the analytical method was applied for evaluating costs and profits and the multi-regression analysis was used for assessing the production factors effecting to economic efficiency of meat goat production
The results showed that the current production of meat goat gave a high and sustainable income, less diseases and low price risk, better agro-industrial by products, more jobs created. The producers were able to adopt experiences and application, buying the Boer breed to improve the meat goat quality and good animal houses. However, the production was still small scales, the meat goat trading was run by the midle men, slaughtering and meat processing were self service in villages without veterinary examination. The scientific application to improve the meat goat production and quality was limited, particularly in use of crossbred Boer does with the constrained reproduction. The trainings for tranfering new technologies to enhance goat meat production provided by the district seemed to be ignored, especially the research activities to improve meat goat breed, nutrtion, feed, yield, meat quality for better income were very limited. A significantly different profit (P<0.05) between the households with and without raising meat goats and this was higher 1.5 time for the raising meat goat ones, while their family incomes were similar (P>0.05). There were eight (8) factors significantly affecting to the profit being goat number (SLD), educational level (TĐHV), production cost (CP), feeding technology (KTN), land area (DTĐ), production yield (NS), available feed source (TA), breed (GD), labour number (SLD), feeding time (TGN) and experiences (KN), respectively. Which was predicted by the multi-regression function Y (million VND) = -21.2 + 1.46 SLD + 2.17 TĐHV – 0.000000350 CP + 16.5 KTN + 1.90 DTĐ + 1.93 NS + 10.5 TA + 11.3 GD + 4.12 SLĐ + 3.36 TGN + 0.177 KNN (R2 = 0.86 và P=0.000). The proposed ideas for better meat goat production in the Binh Tan district could be developing effective production models, studying to create the improving does in reproductivity, utilizing sweet potato residues as feeds, providing more training courses and facilities for slaughters and veterinary examinations.
