On August 23, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Dak Lak province informed that from the beginning of 2025 to now, African swine fever outbreaks have appeared in the province in 120 households (in 66 villages and hamlets of 32 communes and wards).
Accordingly, the authorities have destroyed 1,405 pigs, with a total weight of 92,797kg.
Mr. Nguyen Van Minh - Head of the Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of Dak Lak province said: "African swine fever outbreaks mainly occur at household-level livestock farms. In the coming time, the epidemic may continue to increase because many household livestock farming facilities have not yet met biosafety requirements".
According to Mr. Minh, the local government at both levels has just come into operation, many places have not yet signed contracts with local veterinarians and lack professional human resources. Therefore, disease monitoring and slaughter control work still has many limitations. Meanwhile, the management area is large.
According to research, there are currently 4 animal quarantine stations in the province that operate all day. The authorities focus on strictly handling violations in the transportation of animals and animal products.
Mr. Minh shared: "In the coming time, we will establish working groups to the facility to inspect and supervise disease prevention and control. At the same time, focus on mobilizing local resources to completely handle outbreaks, not allowing them to spread widely.
The authorities will also instruct people to strictly implement hygiene and disinfection measures in barns to limit the risk of disease outbreaks".
Dak Lak province currently has a total of about 23,468,030 livestock. Of which, buffalo and cow herds are estimated at 436,730, pig herds 1,290,300 and poultry herds 21,741,000.
From the beginning of 2025 to now, the output of various types of fresh meat is estimated at 226,208 tons. The whole province has more than 3,500 livestock farms, including 79 large-scale farms, 775 medium-scale farms and more than 2,700 small-scale farms.
