Large-Scale Livestock Farming – New Growth Driver for Phú Thọ
Section: Economy
The merger of three provinces – Phú Thọ, Vĩnh Phúc, and Hòa Bình – has opened up a new development space with larger scale, more abundant resources, and many synergies. In that development picture, agriculture continues to be identified as one of the important pillars of the economy. Notably, the livestock sector is facing a strong breakthrough opportunity as a series of large-scale projects are implemented, forming modern production chains, gradually turning Phú Thọ into a food production and processing center for the Northern Midlands and Mountains region.
“Mega projects” boosting the livestock industry
The beef cattle farming complex with a scale of 10,000 head, invested by a joint venture between Japan's Sojitz Group and Vietnam's Vinamilk Group in Phú Thọ.
Advantages in land area, infrastructure, and connectivity are making Phú Thọ an attractive destination for investors in high-tech livestock farming. The current development trend is to form large-scale livestock complexes with closed-loop production from breeding stock, animal feed to slaughter, processing, and consumption, thereby improving productivity, increasing product value, and meeting increasingly stringent market standards.
In fact, many large-scale projects have been and are operating effectively, laying the foundation for the transition from traditional to industrial, modern livestock farming.
A typical example is the Tam Đảo cattle farm and beef processing plant complex, invested by a joint venture between Japan's Sojitz Group and Vietnam's Vinamilk Group in Phú Thọ. After more than a year of operation, the complex is running stably and continues to expand its scale of investment. With a total capital of 1,670 billion VND on an area of over 75 hectares, the complex includes a farm raising 10,000 cattle and a beef processing plant with a capacity of 70 to 100 head per day, equivalent to about 10,000 tons of products per year.
This is the first large-scale closed-loop beef farming and processing complex in Vietnam, contributing to the shift from raw material production to deep processing, increasing added value, and gradually perfecting the livestock value chain in Phú Thọ.
Not stopping at projects already underway, Phú Thọ continues to welcome a new wave of investment in the livestock sector. Currently, the province has more than 10 large-scale livestock projects in the process of seeking investment approval or expanding production. This signals Phú Thọ's growing appeal to businesses and groups investing in high-tech agriculture, while affirming that large-scale livestock development is on the right track, creating additional growth momentum for the province's agricultural economy.
One of the standout highlights is the high-tech pig farming project chain of Xuân Thiện Group in the Yên Thủy and Lạc Sơn areas. With a total area of nearly 4,000 hectares, a scale of about 63,000 sows and over 2 million fattening pigs per year, this is considered one of the leading pig farming projects in the country. Accompanying the farms is a system of animal feed production plants with a capacity of over 1 million tons per year, creating a closed-loop production chain, ensuring active source of raw materials, reducing production costs, and improving economic efficiency.
Alongside that, the livestock, slaughter, and food processing complex project of Đa Phúc Company in Yên Thủy commune has a total investment of about 14,500 billion VND, with a scale of 40,000 sows, 1 million fattening pigs per year, and a slaughter facility with a capacity of 1.4 million head per year.
When these projects are implemented according to the province's investment policy, Phú Thọ will form large-scale high-tech livestock complexes, creating momentum for the livestock industry to develop in a modern, closed-loop, high-value-added direction, and gradually affirm its position as one of the key livestock centers of the North.
Important driver for double-digit growth target
Large-scale livestock farms are being established and becoming development drivers for the agricultural sector.
In the context of Phú Thọ province setting a double-digit growth target for the period 2026-2030, the agricultural sector not only has the task of ensuring food security but must also become a real growth driver.
According to the agricultural sector's assessment, if the major projects are implemented on schedule, the livestock industry will generate significant growth resources, contributing to increasing the proportion of agricultural production value, boosting exports, and gradually forming a large-scale food production and processing center for the Northern Midlands and Mountains region.
Attracting large corporations also means bringing modern technology, advanced management methods, and international standards into production. This is an important factor for improving labor productivity, controlling diseases, moving towards a circular economy, reducing emissions, and green production.
Mr. Bùi Duy Linh – Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Environment said: In the first six months of 2026, the province's agricultural sector is expected to achieve a growth rate of about 3.5%; striving for a full-year growth rate of 4.5 to 5%, of which the livestock sector will be one of the important contributing drivers. The province will continue to improve the investment environment, create favorable conditions to attract large enterprises and groups to implement modern livestock projects, ensuring environmental, biosafety, and sustainable development requirements. The goal is to make livestock farming one of the important growth drivers of the agricultural sector, creating high added value and actively contributing to the socio-economic development of the province in the new period.
After the merger, livestock farming is no longer merely an agricultural production sector but is gradually becoming an economic sector capable of generating high added value, promoting rural economic restructuring, and creating new growth momentum for Phú Thọ province. If the development potential is well utilized, investment capital is effectively attracted, and factors such as environment, disease control, and product quality are strictly managed, Phú Thọ has every basis to become a large-scale livestock, processing, and food supply center of the region, making an important contribution to the fast and sustainable development goals in the new period.
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