Nam Dinh, Thai Binh develop disease-free pig production for export
The Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is implementing a project to build safe and disease-free pig breeding region meeting requirements for export in the northern provinces of Nam Dinh and Thai Binh.
A pig farm in My Loc district of Nam Dinh (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Department of Animal Health under theMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development is implementing a project tobuild safe and disease-free pig breeding region meeting requirements for exportin the northern provinces of Nam Dinh and Thai Binh.
The project, which is conducted from 2015-2020, is part of Decision441/QD-BNN-TY on sustainable development of the breeding sector with internationalstandards for export.
By September 2017, the project helped develop 22 concentrated pigbreeding farms in Thai Binh and 23 others in Nam Dinh, with 11 farms in ThaiBinh and six others in Nam Dinh recognised as chlorella-free farms.
Thai Binh has 26 farms linking with four enterprises and one breedingassociation and 11 co-operatives in its production chain, while Nam Dinh hasalso set up some similar chains.
Statistics on April 1, 2017 showed that Thai Binh has 1 million pigsbred in 546 farms, while Nam Dinh has nearly 780,000 pigs with 30 large-scalefarms. -VNA
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A pig farm in My Loc district of Nam Dinh (Photo: VNA) 
