Modern Animal Husbandry: Opportunities and Challenges

The Strong Growth of the Animal Husbandry Industry

Vietnam’s animal husbandry industry is experiencing strong growth, making a significant contribution to the national economy. However, to meet the increasing demands of the domestic and international markets, the animal husbandry industry needs to adapt to changes and apply modern technology.

Modern Technology in Animal Husbandry

Application of Information Technology and Automation

Smart animal husbandry management system: Helps monitor animal health, manage feed, and barn environments effectively, reducing labor and increasing productivity. Modern animal husbandry management software allows farmers to closely monitor the condition of their livestock, enabling timely and accurate decisions.

Sensors and IoT: Help monitor temperature, humidity, and air quality in barns, ensuring the best living environment for livestock. The collected data helps farmers make necessary adjustments to optimize production.

Biotechnology

Breed selection: Applying biotechnology to select and breed livestock with high productivity, good quality, and strong resistance. This contributes to improving economic efficiency and ensuring food safety.

Animal feed: Biotechnology helps create animal feed with high nutritional content, easy digestibility, helping livestock grow well and healthily.

Sustainable Animal Husbandry Trends

Nowadays, consumers are increasingly concerned about food safety and environmental protection. Therefore, sustainable animal husbandry is becoming an inevitable trend. Organic farming and clean farming are being chosen by many people.

Challenges of Modern Animal Husbandry

Besides the opportunities, modern animal husbandry also faces many challenges such as: diseases, climate change, fluctuating animal feed prices, market competition…

Effective Animal Husbandry Experience

To succeed in modern animal husbandry, farmers need to: update new knowledge, apply modern technology, comply with safe animal husbandry processes, invest properly, build brands, and find stable markets.