Vietnam plans to produce and commercialise a vaccine against African swine fever in the third quarter of 2021, said Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien during a press conference in Hanoi on January 14. Tien said the vaccine trials have produced positive results. According to him, the vaccine is expected to ensure not only the supply of food from livestock farming but also livelihoods of 2.5 million breeding households. Vietnam is targeting more than 90 percent of its communes and wards being free of African swine fever by 2022 and all by 2025. The targets are set in a national plan on African swine fever prevention for the 2020-2025 period that has been approved by Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung. The plan also targets 500 safe pig breeding facilities and 50 safe livestock chains, meeting domestic demand and for export. … [Read more...] about African swine fever vaccine to be available in Q3
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Vietnam to have vaccine against African swine fever
This good news brings delights to owners of over 2.5 million farms and to the domestic animal feed market. According to the Department of Livestock Production, the herds of pigs in the country have recovered over 85 percent compared to the prior time reaching 27 million hogs. … [Read more...] about Vietnam to have vaccine against African swine fever
New China swine fever strains point to unlicensed vaccines
In 2004-5, when the H5 bird flu strains were spreading across Asia, Chinese laboratories produced several unauthorised live bird flu vaccines, said Mo Salman, a professor of veterinary medicine at Colorado State University, who has worked on animal health in Asia, raising fears that they could produce dangerous new variants. … [Read more...] about New China swine fever strains point to unlicensed vaccines
Pork market for Tet holidays: plentiful supply, unstable prices
Many pig-farming households in Chau Thanh District in Tien Giang Province said that at present, the price of live pigs bought by traders is not high, so some households will keep their pigs till near the Lunar New Year to sell. According to Nguyen Van Cuong, a local pig-farming household, the price of porkers weighed at the barn was VND8 million per quintal, while traders sold porkers at about VND8.5 million per quintal. This price level is still profitable for pig farmers. However, compared to the previous year, this price is about VND500,000 per quintal lower. Therefore, his family still holds their pigs to wait until the price is high, then they will sell. In Dong Thap, Mr. Bach Tuan Kiet, Head of the Department of Disease Control under the Department of Livestock Production, Veterinary, and Fisheries of Dong Thap Province, said that the total pig herd in the province was more than 71,000 pigs in October last year. The provincial authorities have actively implemented detoxification … [Read more...] about Pork market for Tet holidays: plentiful supply, unstable prices
Pork prices fall as Vietnam increases imports
HCM City (VNS/VNA) - The imported pork and declining meat consumption have pushed pork prices down, helping stabilise the consumer price index. This month pork has been sold at the Hoc Mon wholesale market in Ho Chi Minh City for around 72,000 VND (3.17 USD) per kilogramme, 8,000 VND down from previous months, according to its management. Le Xuan Huy, deputy general director of the CP Livestock Joint Stock Company, said hog prices are down because of increased imports of both frozen pork and live pigs as well as lower demand. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, in the first seven months of this year Vietnam imported more than 93,248 tonnes of pork, mainly from Canada, Germany, Poland, Brazil, the US, Spain, and Russia, 223 percent up from the same period in 2019. The ministry licensed imports of pigs on the hoof from Thailand from mid-June. As of August 36 companies registered to quarantine more than 4.7 million … [Read more...] about Pork prices fall as Vietnam increases imports