African swine fever has been spreading strongly in Quy Mong commune, Lao Cai province, causing heavy damage to people. Many farms are in a state of blight, pushing many families into a state of piling up debt.
In Tan Thinh village, one of the epidemic areas, many households witnessed the pigs diligently cared for and died every day.
Mr. Hoang Van Giang (in Tan Thinh village, Quy Mong commune) confided that his family's pigs have nearly 80 pigs, an average of nearly 30 kg/ pig, and are now about 1/3 dead, many of them are infected and are dying. The risk of white sticks is very high.
Mr. Giang shared: My family has just invested more than 200 million to build a barn, plus nearly 200 million to buy breeding pigs. Within just 5-6 days, the epidemic spread rapidly, causing us to lose more than 300 million VND. Not to mention the money for animal feed still owes the dealer.
Not far away, Ms. Nguyen Thi Quynh's family in the same village is also suffering the same fate. Ms. Quynh is a long-time traditional livestock farmer, her family life mainly depends on pigs, buffaloes and cows. African swine fever has almost wiped out the pig farm.
Ms. Quynh shared: "My family raises 13 pigs, each weighing more than 1 ton, just waiting for the day to leave the barn. The pain was even greater than the 3 big sows, with an average weight of nearly 3 quintals/sub, which also became infected and died. To date, the family has destroyed more than 1.8 tons of pigs".
According to Ms. Quynh, there are only a dozen pigs left in the barn, and her family still feeds them with rice. If they die, the commune will report and destroy them.
According to the report of the People's Committee of Quy Mong commune, the first outbreak of African swine fever was discovered on July 8 at Mr. Bui Van Lan's household, Tan Viet village. By July 10, the epidemic had shown signs of spreading rapidly in the community.
As of July 25, the whole commune had 10/30 outbreaks; 35 households with pigs were infected. The total number of destroyed pigs was more than 250, with a total weight of nearly 13 tons.
In Lao Cai province, African swine fever occurred in 16 communes, with 520 pigs sick, dead and destroyed, with a total destruction of over 21 tons. The risk of the epidemic continuing to outbreak and spread in the province is very high.
Faced with the above situation, the Provincial People's Committee has issued a document requesting departments, branches, units and localities to synchronously deploy measures to prevent and control animal diseases, and at the same time have practical measures to support livestock farming households.
