The public, private, and people’s sectors are joining hands to promote cattle raising on a full-cycle basis, as a way to develop the halal economic corridor in the southern border provinces.
Representatives of the three sectors joined a meeting on 24 June 2021, chaired by Secretary-General of the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Center (SBPAC) Rear Admiral Somkiat Pholprayoon, to discuss halal livestock development, with an emphasis on the raising of beef and dairy cattle, as well as chickens, for health.
SBPAC and relevant organizations agreed to upgrade cattle raising to generate employment and income for local farmers in the deep South, where state agricultural areas will be used to plant Napier grass and other crops for animal feed.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives serves as a leading agency to carry out this project with local farmers and will provide them with knowledge and skills in cattle raising. About 70 local farmer groups are preparing to register as cattle-raising enterprises and urge more people to join the project.
At the meeting, a proposal was made to encourage each district in the deep South to carry out a cattle-raising project as a model for local residents. SBPAC has set a target to develop it into a stable career for people in the southern border provinces.
The project also aims to help ease the poverty problem, create more job opportunities for local people, increase economic value, and upgrade the people’s quality of life.
Source: The Government Public Relations Department