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Vietnam stops live pig imports from Thailand due to swine fever

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Vietnam stops live pig imports from Thailand
By Thuy Tien May 29, 2021 | 08:00 am GMT+7

Vietnam has decided to stop importing live pigs from Thailand starting June 30 after 980 of them were found infected with the African swine fever.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development took the decision to stop imports to try and prevent the disease from being transmitted to domestic herds.

Enterprises with signed contracts for pigs to be transported to Vietnam before June 30 can still implement them. The ministry has asked the Department of Animal Health to place imported pigs under strict quarantine.

The department had detected the disease among 980 pigs during the quarantine process on May 19. The pigs were imported by livestock firm Senat Limited Liability Company and worth VND6.2 billion ($269,500). The infected pigs were destroyed May 21.

Vietnam allowed import of live pigs for the first time starting mid-June 2020 to contain rising pork prices as a result of the African swine fever...
 
Source: https://www.agriculture.com/markets...d-to-vietnam-did-not-have-african-swine-fever

Thailand says pigs exported to Vietnam did not have African swine fever
5/29/2021

BANGKOK, May 30 (Reuters) - Thailand denied on Sunday that pigs exported to Vietnam earlier this month were infected with the African swine fever prior to departure.

Thailand's comment came after Vietnam said on Friday it will suspend the import of live pigs from Thailand from June 30 after it discovered a batch of imported hogs had the swine flu.

The pigs had been tested for the flu before they were exported, said Sorawit Thanito, director-general of the Thai Department of Livestock Development, in a statement...
 
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