Up to 69.5 tonnes of frozen pork and by-products from Tomsk province of Russia have been exported to Vietnam, meeting the sanitary and veterinary regulations of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the veterinary requirements of Vietnam.
Vietnam ranks sixth in the world for pork production with a total output of over 2.7 million tonnes in 2023. In the Southeast Asia region, the Philippines follows Vietnam with a production of 1 million tonnes.
Vietnam’s livestock industry set a production growth target of 4-5% in 2024 and is expected to make up 28-30% of the country’s agricultural production.
Vietnam imported more than 60,800 tonnes of meat and meat products worth 124.85 million USD in July, a year-on-year fall of 1.1% and 11.2%, respectively, according to the Agency of Foreign Trade under the Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The northern province of Bac Giang is stepping up the development of its key products and production areas towards the realisation of a series of targets set for 2030.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on July 31 sent a dispatch to ministers, heads of ministry-level agencies and chairmen of the People’s Committees of centrally-run provinces and cities, asking for strengthened efforts in the management of prices of essential goods and services.
Russian food supplier Miratorg announced that it has exported 40,000 tonnes of pork to Vietnam so far this year and become the country’s largest meat provider.
Russia earned 130.5 million USD from exporting 63,500 tonnes of pork and viscera to Vietnam in 2020, equivalent to 25 percent of Vietnamese pork imports, thereby becoming the largest pork supplier to the Southeast Asian nation.
Vietnam imported more than 141,000 tonnes of pork worth 334.4 million USD in 2020, representing a rise of 382 percent and 500 percent over the previous year, respectively, customs statistics showed.
According to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, the agriculture sector earns 40 billion USD from shipping farm produce to 120 countries, however, there are few products from the livestock industry such as honey, salted eggs and suckling pigs.
With huge inflation pressure on the way in the remaining months of this year, a close watch must be kept on the prices of key products like oil and pork to hit the goal of keeping inflation below 4 percent, experts have said.
Statistics show that over the past 3 months, the amount of pork imported from Russia reached about 2,400 tons, of which 85.24% of the total amounts, equivalent to 2,010 tones, came from Miratorg – the largest meat distributors in Russia.
The Ministry of Finance has recently sent Dispatch No.14813/BTC-CST to competent ministries and sectors, suggesting cutting import on chicken and pork products.
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) have proposed the Government import pork based on the directions of Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue.
Although pork is plentiful right now, the demand is expected to rise at the end of the year, then rocket by as much as 25 percent when the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday is coming near.
African swine fever has been reported in two new provinces - the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak and the southern province of Ca Mau, raising the total number of localities affected by the virus to 46.
Bánh tẻ (a kind of rice cake filled with pork and other ingredients) is a very familiar dish for every Vietnamese. Anyone who has enjoyed rice cake will never forget its taste.
African Swine Fever (ASF) has spread among 20 provinces and cities in Vietnam with nearly 25,000 pigs culled in an attempt to stop the disease from reaching the southern farms that produce the industry’s largest amount of pork.
Authorities of the northern province of Ha Nam are intensifying efforts to contain and stamp out the outbreaks of African swine fever (ASF), as another case was announced on March 8.
