Indonesia’s Agriculture Ministry is preparing 1.5 million ha of grazing land for dairy cattle to support the Free Lunch and Milk Programme proposed by President-elect Prabowo Subianto and Vice President Gibran Rakabuming Raka.

Vinamilk has both focused on solutions to develop the milch cow breeding in terms of scale, productivity and technology, and building a sustainable future of the breeding industry with a system of dairy cow farms nationwide as a core.

Visiting Lao officials have expressed their hope that the Vietnam Dairy Products JSC Company (Vinamilk) will consider seeking opportunities to extend investment in and exports to Laos.

The northern province of Ha Nam has given nod to a milch cow farming project in Thanh Nguyen commune, Thanh Liem distrtict invested by the Vietnam Dairy Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk).

The HCM City Department of Agriculture and Rural Development has advised dairy farmers having cows with low milk yields to switch to higher-yield cows or oxen for their meat.

The Vietnam Bombs and Mines Action Support Association (VBMASA) presented 60 cows to victims of unexploded ordnances (UXOs) in the central province of Quang Nam to assist them with livelihood.

The military-run telecommunications Viettel Group provided 2,787 cows to impoverished households in the northern mountainous province of Son La between September 2014 and June 30 this year.