The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Soldiers of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit are helping to foster a booming chicken raising industry in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. Each week two Australian soldiers drive fourty five miles to Saigon to purchase day old chicks from Kim Soon Ai, a Japanese woman now settled in Vietnam, and her partner Lieutenant Canh. The chickens are then distributed in lots of fifty to farmers around the Province. The farmer, using the methods taught by the Australians, can fatten them in ten weeks for sale at local markets for about one hundred and fifty per cent profit. An initial gift of fifty chickens is made by the Civil Affairs Unit to approved Vietnamese farmers interested in the scheme. The second batch of chicks is purchased from the profits raised on the initial batch. And so the scheme grows. Shortly the Civil Affairs men hope to see a chicken hatchery established in the Province to save the long trips to Saigon and so provide Phuoc Tuy Province with a new industry. Also identified: Private John Murray, 21, of Nowra, NSW; Lieutenant Jim Holland of Hawthorn, Vic.
Australian soldiers are working to improve chicken and pig farming methods in Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. They are soldiers of the agricultural team of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit, ba
Two Australian soldiers in Vietnam have started long range vegetable and crop trials to raise the efficiency of peasant farming in Phuoc Tuy province. Tied in with their agricultural trials they are w
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. November 1970. Captain Gordon Pound of Townsville, Qld (left), is in charge of the Civil Affairs Agricultural Team which is advising farmers in the province on more
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. November 1970. Corporal Darryl Williams, 23, of Temora, NSW (left), a member of the Civil Affairs Agricultural Team which is advising farmers in the province on more
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. December 1970. Troops of the 1st Australian Civil Affairs Unit in Vietnam had a hard time unloading the truck loads of pigs they were delivering to farmers in Phuoc
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. November 1970. Corporal (Cpl) Mick Appleby, 29, of Glenorie, NSW (left), a member of the Civil Affairs Agricultural Team which is advising Vietnamese farmers in the
