Businesses based in the southern province of Tay Ninh have earned nearly 1 billion VND (47,000 USD) from their daily export of 10,000 chickens to Cambodia through auxiliary border checkpoints.

The province now has 86 chicken breeding areas under the model of large-scale farms, yielding a combined annual output of around 5.5 million chickens.

To ensure food safety and prevent bird flu, the province’s veterinary sector has chickens vaccinated against the A/H5N1 strain of the virus, in addition to intensifying environmental sanitation at the farms.

The price of chickens in southeastern provinces has increased to 38,000 VND (1.78 USD) per kilogram from 26,000 VND (1.22 USD) at the beginning of this year. The price enables local poultry breeders to make profits of 4,000-5,000 VND a kilogram.-VNA