Renting land to build a chicken farm but pre-processing the chicken feet to remove bones
Recently, after receiving information about Mr. Tran Van Tue's household "transforming" the chicken farm into a processing facility, wrapping chicken feet and removing bones, showing many signs of violating land and environment in Ai Quoc commune, the People's Committee of Tien Hai district (Thai Binh province) quickly directed the district's Department of Agriculture and Environment to conduct an inspection of compliance with land, environment and water resources laws for this facility.
According to the inspection results, in 2010, Mr. Tran Van Tue was leased 5,796.5 m2 of land in Tay Tien commune (now Ai Quoc commune) by Tien Hai district People's Committee for the purpose of building a chicken farm with a scale of 19,000 chickens/catch, with a land use term until 2030. Mr. Tue has fulfilled his financial obligations on land rent and non-agricultural land use tax until December 31, 2024.
On the leased land, he has invested in building works items, including: 1 1 -storey operator with an area of 40m2; 1 1 -storey office house with an area of 25m2; 3 breeding facilities with an area of 1,833.4m2 (the time of construction in 2011).
In October 2023, Mr. Tue carried out repairing and upgrading 3 breeding cages to 3 workshops with an area of 1,833.4m2 and investing in building new construction items including: 1 factory with an area of 750m2; 1 warehouse area of 250m2; 8 tanks are not water, each capacity of 20m3 each; wastewater treatment area 80m2; General cleaning works 60m2 (these works are completed in April 2024).
According to Mr. Tue's presentation, due to the inefficient chicken raising, the business model has changed from "raising chickens" to "preliminary processing and packaging chicken feet" from April 2023 and officially came into operation in April 2024 with a capacity of 1 ton/day.
The system of machinery and equipment for production includes: cold storage, preliminary processing equipment; labor used from 60-80 people; Raw materials used to produce chicken leg bones imported from distributors in Hai Phong, Hung Yen, Hanoi.
During the production process, domestic wastewater is generated at about 0.32m3/day, the facility will prepare for preliminary treatment with a self-detecting tank and a sewer pit, then discharge it into the production wastewater treatment tank; the production wastewater is generated at 7m3/day, the facility will build a sewer to produce 130m2, then discharge it into the Lan River.
Sandbags and plastic bags are generated about 70kg/day, periodically sold to buyers in Ai Quoc commune; chicken bones are generated about 300kg/day, sold to buyers in Tien Hai district.
Request to suspend facility operations due to detection of a series of violations
According to the inspection team, Mr. Tran Van Tue's facility has had a series of shortcomings and violations such as: Using the entire area of land leased by Tien Hai District People's Committee to do the pre-processing of chicken feet for bone removal not for the purpose of land lease; the pre-processing of chicken feet for bone removal is not in accordance with the commitment and approval of the environmental protection commitment of the project approved by the District People's Committee; not implementing an environmental license according to the provisions of the Law on Environmental Protection 2020 for the investment project to build a chicken farm.
In addition, the facility did not monitor the environment, did not report on environmental protection work annually according to regulations; did not comply with declaration and payment of industrial wastewater fees from 2014 to present.
From the above inspection results, the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Tien Hai district has proposed that the District People's Committee issue a document directing the request: Mr. Tran Van Tue stop the preliminary processing and packaging of chicken feet to remove bones after using all the ingredients of the chicken feet in the warehouse; the completion time is before April 15, 2025 (at the time of inspection, the facility was storing about 15 tons of chicken feet).
Strictly comply with the provisions of the law on land, environment, water resources; use land for the right purpose, within the correct boundaries, and the land area leased by the People's Committee of Tien Hai district.
In case of implementing a project to prepare and package chicken feet to remove bones, the competent authority requires Mr. Tran Van Tue to prepare a dossier for the investment project, land, and environment to submit to the competent authority for consideration according to regulations; the project will only continue to operate when permitted by the competent authority.
