Are Vietnamese consumers eating “locally imported” pork?

Sharing with reporters, a representative of a veterinary medicine business said that after African Swine Fever entered Vietnam, the livestock market changed rapidly. Biosecurity is still the most popular way to prevent ASF, but it is a weakness of the small-scale livestock industry, causing this sector to decline severely. Large enterprises, especially FDI, have developed strongly, dominating the pig farming sector. Small-scale livestock farming is still too small, Vietnamese enterprises producing veterinary medicine, animal feed, and breeds face many difficulties, because they can only sell to this sector. As for the FDI livestock sector, they import and use it themselves. Vietnamese consumers are currently eating “locally imported” pork, because inputs such as animal feed ingredients, vaccines, and livestock equipment are mostly imported and are also raised by foreign enterprises that are increasingly expanding. The Vietnamese livestock industry is losing right at home!

This enterprise representative also urgently requested that the livestock industry associations/unions make efforts to criticize policies so that livestock in general and the domestic business sector in particular have many conditions for sustainable development. Because livestock farming is not only food security, but also the livelihood of millions of Vietnamese people.

Source: nhachannuoi.vn