This morning, people in Truong Quang Trong ward (Quang Ngai province) excitedly came to the Ward People's Committee to receive support money due to pig deaths due to African swine fever, phase 1 of 2025.
According to reporters' records, each stack of money is fully prepared by ward officials in envelopes, clearly stating the name and amount of money received. The ward also arranges a money counting machine for people to check their money again. People when receiving citizens bring a citizen identification card and a photocopy of the citizen identification card. In case of re-receiving, there must be a power of attorney certified by a competent authority.
Police forces are also strengthened to support people and ensure security and order. Being able to receive support money before the Lunar New Year of Binh Ngo, everyone is excited. The person receiving the highest level of support is over 152 million VND, the lowest level is 2 million VND.
Ms. Le Thi Thinh, residential group 3, Hoa Binh village, Truong Quang Trong ward, happily said: "Due to African swine fever, my family has sows, meat pigs and piglets that died. Now that the ward has supported nearly 14 million VND, I am very happy. With money, I will buy pigs to continue raising, and also have more expenses to cover during the upcoming Binh Ngo Lunar New Year.
Mr. Pham Tan Phuoc - Vice Chairman of Truong Quang Trong Ward People's Committee said that from July 8, 2025 to December 10, 2025, African swine fever broke out in 340 households in 21 residential groups in the ward, with a total of 2,007 pigs destroyed, with a total weight of nearly 109 tons.
Total support funds for facilities damaged by the epidemic are over 4.2 billion VND. In which, support funds for production facilities damaged by African swine fever from July 8, 2025 to July 24, 2025 (spending level according to Decision No. 13/2023/QD-UBND dated March 29, 2023 of Quang Ngai Provincial People's Committee) are over 1.2 billion VND.
Funding support for production facilities damaged by African swine fever from July 25, 2025 to December 10, 2025 (expenditure level according to Resolution No. 11/2025/NQ-HDND dated September 24, 2025 of Quang Ngai Provincial People's Council) is over 3 billion VND. Total funding support for people participating in disease recovery is over 253 million VND.
According to Mr. Pham Tan Phuoc, in phase 1, the ward has supported facilities damaged by the epidemic with an amount of over 3.6 billion VND, from local contingency funds.
The additional funding needed to support facilities damaged by epidemics is over 685 million VND. To have funding to support affected production households according to regulations, Truong Quang Trong Ward People's Committee has proposed the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Provincial Department of Finance to summarize and advise the Provincial People's Committee to consider and decide on support.
The outbreak of African swine fever is raging, causing people to suffer very heavy losses, and many households are left empty-handed. Therefore, the fact that Truong Quang Trong Ward People's Committee arranged funds to provide timely support makes people very touched.
From the beginning of July 2025 to now, the whole province has had to destroy more than 49,000 pigs, equivalent to about 2,000 tons of live meat due to African swine fever.
On September 24, 2025, at the 4th session, the 13th Quang Ngai Provincial People's Council, term 2021 - 2026, passed a resolution stipulating the level of support for overcoming animal diseases in the province.
According to the resolution, the specific support level for livestock establishments includes: buffaloes, cows, horses, goats 50,000 VND/kg of live weight; sheep, giraffes 55,000 VND/kg; pigs 40,000 VND/kg; poultry (chickens, ducks, geese, geese, pigeons) 35,000 VND/kg. People participating in epidemic prevention without budget salaries are supported with 400,000 VND/regular day, 500,000 VND/holiday, holiday, Tet; people receiving budget salaries are supported with 150,000 VND/regular day, 300,000 VND/holiday, holiday, Tet.
Talking to Lao Dong Newspaper reporters about whether there are other localities in the province besides Truong Quang Trong ward that support livestock households affected by African swine fever in 2025, Mr. Do Van Chung, Head of the Sub-Department of Livestock and Veterinary Medicine (Department of Agriculture and Rural Development) said that the Sub-Department is summarizing.
