What are conditions for production of and trading in breeding chickens in Vietnam?

1. What are conditions for production of and trading in breeding chickens in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 22 of the 2018 Law on Livestock, conditions for production of and trading in breeders are as follows:

1. Breeder refers to an individual domesticated animal raised for reproduction or breeding multiplication purpose.

2. Any producer of breeders must:

a) satisfy conditions specified in Article 55 hereof;

b) apply the appropriate quality management system and declare the quality standards applied to breeding livestock;

c) ensure that the facility nurturing origin breeds and facility producing livestock breeds and lines have technicians holding the university degree or higher in animal husbandry, animal health or biology;

dd) ensure that the facility breeding parental breed stocks of pigs and poultry or breeding stock or producing breeders have technicians trained in animal husbandry, animal health or biology;

dd) have a breed dossier that clearly specify name, grade, origin and number of breeds, and applicable economic-technical standards.

3. Traders of livestock breeders must own the declaration of applied quality standard provided by producers of such breeding animals and breed dossier as prescribed in Point dd Clause 2 this Article.

In addition, Article 55 of the 2018 Law on Livestock stipulates livestock farms as follows:

1. Every livestock farm must:

a) be located in the area conformable to the local and regional socio-economic development strategy and breeding development strategy, and meet breeding density requirements specified in Clause 4 and 5 Article 53 hereof;

b) be supplied with adequate water to ensure quality of breeding activities and livestock waste treatment;

c) take measures to protect environment under law provisions on environmental protection;

d) have breeding housing and breeding equipment suitable for each kind of livestock;

dd) have its breeding process, use of animal feeds, veterinary medicines and vaccines and other information recorded for the purpose of tracing origin of domesticated animals and retain such record for at least 1 years from the end of breeding period;

e) sets up a safe distance from the farm to objects affected by breeding activities and from the contamination source to the breeding farm.

2. Any organization or individual running large-scale livestock farms must be granted a certificate of eligibility for animal husbandry.

3. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development shall stipulate the safe distance in livestock farms to ensure biosecurity, resistance to diseases and environment protection.

Thus, in order to open a business farm for production of and trading in chicks, you need to meet the prescribed conditions on production, trading and farm conditions as above in Vietnam.

2. What are requirements for quality of male and female breeders in livestock production in Vietnam? 

According to Article 24 of the Law on Livestock 2018 stipulating requirements for quality of male and female breeders in livestock production as follows:

1. Any male breeder used in livestock production must:

a) have clear profile and annals;

b) be produced from breed production facilities and conformable to the applied quality standards declared;

c) undergo inspection of individual productivity and meet quality requirements as regulated if such breeder is used for production of sperms for commercial purpose.

2. Any female breeder used in livestock production must:

a) have clear profile and annals;

b) be produced from breed production facilities and conformable to the applied quality standards declared and meet quality requirements.

3. The Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development shall stipulate quality level of male and female breeders.

According to this Article, chicken breeds in production must have the above conditions in Vietnam. In addition, you can refer to the quality criteria required to be announced and quality of male and female breeders in livestock production specified in Section 2, Appendix V issued with Circular 22/ 2019/TT-BNNPTNT.

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