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OSTRICH FARMING GROWING RAPIDLY IN VIETNAM.
HCM CITY, Dec 1 Asia Pulse - Ostrich farming is developing rapidly in Vietnam, the Department of Animal Husbandry has said.
There are 12,000 breeding ostriches on 56 farms situated in 40 provinces and cities.
In the central region alone, there are 16 farms that are raise 8,911 of the flightless birds for meat.
Three of the farms are large and supply breeding birds, meat, and eggs to both the local and export markets.
The country's largest ostrich-farming company is Khanh Viet Corporation (Khatoco) in Khanh Hoa province which began life as a tourism company. Following a pilot project to breed the world's largest birds, the director of the company found they adapted to the local weather and fetched big profits.
Khatoco then became a joint stock company farming ostriches. It ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, OSTRICH FARMING GROWING RAPIDLY IN VIETNAM.