ecently, upon reminding pigs, a sudden fear grips consumers. The African swine fever has outbroken all over the country.
As of now, there is no vaccine to cure the disease. Accordingly, many households that have spent all of their savings to invest in pig dare to destroy all as 100% of infected pigs will end up dying, according to statistics.
he swine fever widely spread and many countries have taken different measure to prevent the disease. Take Australia for instance, the Government is highly alert and localize to strictly control goods. Demark starts to build a fence 70km long and 1.5m high along the Germany border to prevent wild pigs from penetrating. In China, people even use high technology to early identify the disease.
As the African swine feve found there, Danang Agricultural andr outbreaks and spreads widely in many provinces, Vietnam has urgently taken countermeasures. Although outbreaks have yet to be Rural Development Department has asked Sub-Department of Livestock Production and Veterinary to allocate 1,152 liter Benkocid to local sterilization units to prevent the African swine fever. Quang Tri has established 2 veterinary testing and African swine fever prevention stations on National Road No. 1A through Vinh Chap commune, Vinh Linh District (close to Quang Binh province) and on Ho Chi Minh Road in Ben Quan town, Vinh Linh District.
In practice, while Vietnam’s pig farms are traditionally developed, focus on breeding and slaughtering line. In the meanwhile, the milk giant Vinamilk or clean chicken egg giant DTK are pioneer in the world standard quality.
In a recent sharing, Mrs. Mai Kieu Lien, Vinamilk’s CEO stated that all of the Company’s cow farms adopt high technology to achieve success in dairy cow sector. The farm systems satisfy the international standards related to clean agriculture production, so unfavorable weather conditions to dairy cow in Vietnam is fully addressed.
Mrs. Vu Minh Ngoc, Chairwoman cum CEO of DTK Japanese Tech spotlessly clean chicken egg company said that “Livestock production in the era of world standard quality is required to heavily invest in stables and raising areas”. Mrs. Ngoc further stated that the biggest risk to cattle lies in contagious diseases. Thus, clean stables that meet the world’s standards, appropriate density, raising environment and alienated raising areas are the key to success of DTK. According to Mrs. Ngoc, apart from the modern farm system from raising chickens to collecting eggs, DTK spends a majority of raising areas to plant green tree and build equalizing reservoir to separate the raising area from surrounding areas.
With 150 years of global experience in farming development, experts from BlueScope, Australia stated that Vietnam’s livestock sector required a new thinking and effort concerning farming investment to adapt to environment and climate changes, improve agriculture product’s quality and enhance efficiency in an attempt to sustainably invest for future to cope with disasters like the swine fever. The traditional farming techniques are facing key issues as follows:
- Firstly, being stuffy, unventilated, and unable to accommodate degree and lighting, and control hygiene which all lead to high risk of disease.
- Secondly, low-quality and inconsistent construction materials will easily make stables easily downgraded and worn out.
- Thirdly, outdated stables not only cause inconvenience, low efficiency, labor waste but are also unable to facilitate the best growth environment for plants and castles.
For pig, chicken and cow raising sector, experts stated that current standards on stables have changed, much different from conditional wisdom. Accordingly, stables needs to ensure the most common requirements concerning structure, floor and equipment to facilitate raising livestock for better growth and avoiding disease. Key is that materials are extremely high inside and outside abrasion resistance due to direct exposure to emission and harsh weather conditions. More importantly, airiness is required to go along with wind-tight insulated roof and air convection.
“At present, there are quite a few new solutions and technologies applied to agriculture sector, ranging from breeding and farming technology to preservation after harvest. Farmers are required to take many things into consideration before selecting the appropriate solutions and technologies. Investment costs are required to associate with return rates, sustainability and benefits to farmer and surrounding environment. Selected solutions also have to satisfy even the minor requirements to optimize the results”, a representative from BlueScope Lysaght recommended.