Hanoi (VNA) – Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai emphasised the need to find ways to deal with epidemic diseases among livestock, both through immediate measures and in the long term.
“By doing so, a long term strategy can be developed to speed up the development of the breeding industry,” Hai said at a meeting on May 4 with representatives from 10 cities and provinces whose pigs are afflicted by blue ear disease.
Hai said that the breeding industry accounted for 25 percent of agricultural production and that proportion did not increase because of on-going epidemics among livestock in recent years.
He attributed the spread of blue ear disease to its late discovery, breeders concealing the outbreak and poor control of selling and transporting diseased pigs.
Hai asked the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry and relevant offices to correct prevention and protection measures to better control the epidemic.
The ministry was also asked to work along with the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry to assess projects on treating burial grounds and the environment in affected localities, especially in Thanh Hoa province.
The deputy PM also revealed that the Government would publicise plans to help affected cities and provinces next week.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat, meanwhile, sais epidemic diseases had reduced but there were still implicit risks of more breakouts.
He said the ministry has given instructions to import one million doses of the vaccine to give to droves of sow against the blue ear disease.
Representatives from 10 cities and provinces asked the Government to supplement stronger prevention and protection measures to deal with the epidemic.
Blue ear disease has appeared in 775 communes and wards in 10 provinces of Lam Dong, Thua Thien-Hue, Quang Nam, Ha Tinh, Nghe An, Thanh Hoa, Ninh Binh, Nam Dinh, Thai Binh and Thai Nguyen.
As many as 254,242 out of total 255,250 diseased pigs have been destroyed.-Enditem
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