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A veterinary official checks the quality of pork at a slaughter house in My Tho, in the southern province of Tien Giang. — VNA/VN Photo Dinh Hue |
Under agreements signed last week by the respective Departments of Agriculture and Rural Development, the owners of healthy pigs bred on large farms in the provinces of Tien Giang, Long An, and Dong Nai will be issued quarantine certificates and transported by designated vehicles to abattoirs designated by the provinces.
The certificates will not be issued to pig traders who buy from various sources to ensure the loop is fully closed.
Provincial departments will provide the city division daily updates on the status of the epidemic and infected areas.
The city has 29 large abattoirs that slaughter 7,500 to 8,500 pigs daily but only 11 per cent of them are raised in the city while the rest are from outside.
Dong Nai accounts for almost 37 per cent, Ba Ria-Vung Tau for 11 per cent, and Long An and Tien Giang for around 10 per cent each.
Dong Nai leads the country in the number of heads with 1.2 million, half raised on large farms and the rest in more than 40,000 household farms.
Only 15 per cent of Tien Giang's 544,000 pigs are raised on large farms that have more than 100 heads.
The corresponding number for Long An Province is 10 per cent.
The city People's Committee has designated four companies to buy pigs raised in the city at VND29,000-32,000 per kilogramme in case of farms and VND25,000 in case of households.
More than 10,000 large and household farms raise 369,000 animals, with 60,000-65,000 ready for slaughter, mostly in outlying districts like Cu Chi, Hoc Mon, and Binh Chanh.
The four selected firms are Sai Gon Trading Group, Vissan Co Ltd, Sai Gon Agriculture Incorporation, and Sai Gon Co.op.
So far 27 provinces and cities have reported outbreaks of blue-ear disease with more than 243,000 pigs infected and nearly 116,000 destroyed. — VNS
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