There is a situation of selling sick pigs
At the regular press conference of the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment on September 4, Mr. Phan Quang Minh, Deputy Director of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, informed about the situation of African swine fever (DTLCP) and the possibility of supplying pork for the 2026 Lunar New Year.
According to Mr. Minh, in 2025, DTLCP disease occurred everywhere in the first 6 months of the year, then increased and appeared many times in July 2025 (accounting for 86.3% of the total number of pigs that must be destroyed since the beginning of the year); the disease occurred mainly in household livestock farming areas with an average of 7-8 pigs/household. From the beginning of August 2025 to now, the epidemic has tended to decrease gradually.
Currently, the DTLCP epidemic is occurring nationwide in 32 provinces and cities in less than 21 days (02 provinces/cities have passed 21 days including Hai Phong and Ca Mau). Of which: 04 localities including Dong Thap, Vinh Long, Thai Nguyen, Tay Ninh - each province has only 01 commune with an epidemic with a total number of destroyed pigs of less than 100; 06 localities including Khanh Hoa, Gia Lai, Lam Dong, An Giang, Can Tho city and Ho Chi Minh city - each locality has 03-09 communes with an epidemic with a total number of destroyed pigs of less than 600. There are 09 provinces with more severe epidemics including: Cao Bang, Tuyen Quang, Phu Tho, Thanh Hoa, Nghe An, Da Nang, Quang Tri, Quang Ngai with a wide epidemic area, occurring in many communes and the number of pigs must be destroyed (over 28,000 pigs).
Mr. Minh also pointed out the causes of the epidemic: high-resistance DTLCP virus, complex transmission lines, difficult to destroy and long-lasting in the environment, especially in the situation of street vending, dumping sick and dead pigs into the environment on a large scale.
Since the beginning of 2025, DTLCP has occurred and caused severe damage in more than 60 countries and territories around the world, including countries with modern livestock farming in Europe and Asia.
"The total number of large-scale livestock but small-scale livestock farming still accounts for a high proportion, not ensuring biosafety measures in livestock farming, disease safety; not implementing DTLCP vaccination.
Recognize that livestock farmers are still limited, still selling sick pigs, throwing pig carcasses into the environment (old Binh Duong, Thanh Hoa, Hanoi, Phu Tho, Quang Ngai, Quang Tri, Gia Lai...) - Mr. Minh said.
Ensuring supply for the Lunar New Year
Mr. Phan Quang Minh, Deputy Director of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine, said that to ensure supply for the Lunar New Year, it is necessary to implement many solutions, which are to promote animal disease prevention and control.
Strengthen the implementation of the ATSH chain of facilities and disease control according to the instructions of the World Veterinary Organization. Resolutely and synchronously deploy solutions for disease prevention and control, especially emerging diseases and diseases transmitted between humans and animals.
Strengthen seed management to improve seed production capacity and promote native varieties. Step by step towards building a national brand: selecting suitable native varieties with good genetic resources to develop a specialty brand associated with tourism (H Mong, black pig).
Digital transformation, deploying national livestock database; building and applying software to ensure correctness, sufficientness, cleanliness, unity, and common use.
