In the first half of this year, pork production reached 2.32 million tonnes, up 5.4 per cent and the total number of pigs is estimated to have increased by 2.5 per cent over the same period last year.
As pork consumption is expected to rise in the short term, many big companies are injecting trillions of dong into pig farming, with a market value estimated at up to $15 billion.
The International Finance Corporation and the investment fund managed by IFC Asset Management Company - IFC Emerging Asia Fund - will be investing US$52 million in common equity in Mavin Group Joint Stock Company (Mavin).
Faced with challenges from COVID-19 and other epidemics, animal husbandry enterprises have both strengthened pandemic prevention measures and joined hands with the Government for its mass vaccination campaign, looking forward to the target of achieving herd immunity.
African swine fever posed a substantial threat to the pig farming industry despite the measures being taken to stop the disease from spreading, said Nguyen Xuan Cuong at the first meeting of the national steering committee for the prevention and...
Small-scale farming with low productivity and lack of production and storage technologies as well as insufficient abilities in expanding markets as major challenges facing domestic pig farming industry.
These days, the term “save the pigs” has appeared in many local newspapers, as the price of live pigs has ped to a record low, causing major losses for farmers across the country. Viet Nam News spoke with the leaders...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Dong Nai administration on Thursday discussed measures to rescue the southern province’s pig-farming industry following the precipitous in the prices of live pigs.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong has submitted a variety of proposed solutions to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to help the struggling pig-farming industry recover.