According to the Department of Livestock, MARD, the total number of pigs nationwide is about 25.5 million, an increase of 2.9 per cent over the same period in 2023.
Up to 69.5 tonnes of frozen pork and by-products from Tomsk province of Russia have been exported to Việt Nam, meeting the sanitary and veterinary regulations of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and the veterinary requirements of Việt Nam.
Over the past two months of this year, the country spent US$18.69 million on importing over 8,400 tonnes of chilled or frozen pork, marking a yearly decline of 1 per cent in value but 4.2 per cent rise in volume, according to the General Department of Việt Nam...
The HCM City Department of Industry and Trade, Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Mercantile Exchange of Vietnam (MXV) signed on August 14 a cooperation agreement to set up a pork trading floor in HCM City.
In 2020, Laos suspended the import of pork from China and Thailand after detecting seven outbreaks of African swine fever with 973 dead pigs in Salavan province.
Domestic live hog prices have fallen deeply, while enterprises have kept importing pork. There is a concern that imported pork may be the cause of the ping domestic pig prices.
Pig farmers in southern of Viet Nam are potentially facing huge losses before Tet (Lunar New Year) as pork prices have plummeted by 15- 20 per cent in the last two months.
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 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) forecasts that Viet Nam will rise to the second position in Asia, after China, in terms of pork consumption this year.
The price of pork is not forecast to surge over Tet as in previous years, according to the Department of Livestock Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, due to lower purchasing power.
Better connections are needed between the capital city of Ha Noi and other localities, if demand for agricultural products in the city is to be met between now and the Lunar New Year in 2022.
VISSAN Joint Stock Company will continue to supply fresh food to the HCM City market though some its workers were found infected with COVID-19 coronavirus.