One research project on establishing a model for shifting land use from cash crop to cut-grasses in large and concentrated fields has been conducted from December, 2012 to May, 2014 in Bac Binh hamlet, Cam Tuyen commune, Cam Lo district, Quang Tri province. The objective of the project is to apply synchronously organization and technology solutions to create a model for intensive beef production for whole community, based on the transformation a large and concentrated area of traditional cash crops to high yield grasses. A series of activities on organizing (meetings with partners), on technology transferring (trainings), field work (planting grass) and on farm trial (intensive cattle fattening), has been designed and implemented. The results after one and a half year include: An intensive cattle production club has been established and stably operated
a total of 5.5 ha land for cash crops were planted with grasses
and one intensive fattening process (weight gain 776 g /day for local breed and 990 g /day for Fl, Sind x Vietnam) was adopted by farmers through actively participating in the experiment The results showed that grass area in May, 2014 has increased by more than 2 times compared to that at the starting point (5.5 ha vs. 2.5 ha). Similarly, the number of households followed the model increased from 20 to 63. Number of cattle increased by 150 percent during 1 year period. Income from 1 sao (500 m~ of grass land was 3.9 millions VND/360m2, 4.25 times higher compared with traditional cash crops (0.918 million VND/360m2/year). In the whole village, the method of extensively grazing has basically been replaced by confinement and intensive. The model has been rapidly spread within the hamlet community and could be promisingly replicated in many other localities in the province and the country.