Dự án CARD 030/06 VIE: Phát triển một chiến lược để tăng cường khả năng cạnh tranh của các doanh nghiệp vừa và nhỏ nông thôn trong nông nghiệp-thực phẩm chuỗi: trường hợp thức ăn chăn nuôi - Sử dụng thức ăn công nghiệp và hỗn hợp của các nhà sản xuất chăn nuôi trong Việt Nam | The University of Western Australia Achieving International Excellence CARD Project 030 06 VIE Developing a strategy for enhancing the competitiveness of rural small and medium enterprises in the agro-food chain the case of animal feed Policy Brief May 2010 Use of Industrial and Mixed Feed by Livestock Producers in Vietnam For Information of the Minister of Agriculture and relevant Departments of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Provincial Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development. Purpose To report on research findings relating to the use of livestock feeds by pig and chicken producers in Vietnam and To suggest implications from the research relating to the current and future use of industrial and mixed feeds by livestock producers. Background A survey in six provinces of 300 pig and chicken livestock producers of mixed production scale was conducted by the Center for Agricultural Policy in 2009. One of the aims of the survey was to investigate feed use by large and small scale livestock enterprises. Producers were classified as small medium or large based on their per head production in 2008. For pig producers small producers were classified as those raising less than 50 head per year and large more than 120 head per year. The classification of chicken producers was different for layer and broiler production. For layer production small firms were classified as those producing less than 1000 head per year and large as those producing more than 4000 head per year. For broiler production small firms were classified as those producing less than 500 head per year and large as those producing more than 3000 head per year. The cost of animal feed is known to be the largest percentage of total production costs of livestock producers and in this survey it was found on average that feed costs accounted for 79 of total production costs for chicken producers and 83 of total production costs for pig producers. It is this high share of feed costs in
