FAO honours Vietnam farmer
VOV.VN - The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Vietnam and FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific will present Model Farmer Awards to Pham Thi Huan, a Vietnam farmer, for her outstanding achievements in agricultural production.
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Besides Mrs Huan, farmers from Fiji, Mongolia, Pakistan and Thailand will also receive the awards.
Pham Thi Huan (or Ba Huan) gets FAO awards for helping farmers in the Mekong Delta shift from rice planting to duck raising for eggs. Her effort has created jobs for many female farmers after they had to restructure crop production to adapt to climate change.
Huan has invested in building an egg processing plant on 2 hectares in PhucTho district, Hanoi with an investment of US$5.2 million. The plant can process 65,000 clean eggs per hour. Construction started in May this year and the plant is expected to be operational in early next year.
It will help poultry farmers in Hanoi find an outlet for their products by purchasing a large quantity of eggs from them.
