Building disease-free zone - key to animal husbandry: Minister
Building disease-free zones is the most important key to the sustainable development of the husbandry sector, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong said on February 23.
A model pig farm in Hanoi's Ba Vi district (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Building disease-free zones is the most important keyto the sustainable development of the husbandry sector, Minister of Agricultureand Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong said on February 23.
The top priority at present is given to researching andproducing vaccines against African swine fever (ASF), Cuong said at a meetingin Hanoi on plans to implement the husbandry development strategy for 2021-2030.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development PhungDuc Tien stated that Vietnam expects to produce ASF vaccines for commercialpurposes at the end of the second quarter or the beginning of the third quarterto serve domestic husbandry development with affordable prices.
According to head of the Department of Animal Health PhamVan Dong, in the first two months of 2021, about 2,000 pigs with ASF werekilled.
The country currently has 73 outbreaks in 21 provinces andcities, Dong added.
Acting head of the Department of Livestock Production NguyenXuan Duong cited January’s statistics which showed the total number of thecountry’s poultry flocks increased by 6.5 percent year-on-year, and the totalnumber of cows up 2.2 percent, and pigs up 16.2 percent./.
New technologies from the fourth Industrial Revolution will be applied in livestock breeding in order to produce safe and high-quality output while improving the husbandry sector’s competitive edge, according to the husbandry development strategy for the 2021-2030 period and vision to 2045.
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A model pig farm in Hanoi's Ba Vi district (Photo: VNA) 
