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Russia becomes largest pork supplier to Vietnamese market
Updated: 16:48, 11/06/2021
Russia earned US$130.5 million from exporting 63,500 tonnes of pork and viscera to Vietnam in 2020, equivalent to 25 percent of Vietnamese pork imports, thereby becoming the largest pork supplier to the Southeast Asian nation.
Vietnam’s total import volume of pork last year rose 44 percent to 270,000 tonnes.
The Ministry of Agriculture of Russia has said that the export of meat and meat products has so far not impacted food prices in Russia.
The Russian ministry said that pork prices will not increase in 2021 thanks to abundant domestic supply and reduced breeding cost.
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Vietnam's total import volume of pork last year rose 44 percent to 270,000 tonnes. |
To meet the high domestic demand for meat, Vietnam has been importing other types of meat along with pork.
In 2019, the spread of African swine fever throughout Asia caused declines of 11.5 percent and 12 percent in terms of the number of cattle and pork output, respectively.
Vietnam has decided to stop importing live pigs from Thailand starting June 30 after 980 of them were found infected with the African swine fever.
For the first time, Vietnam has successfully cloned the endangered Vietnamese Pot-bellied pigs using a somatic cell cloning technique.
(BGO) - Over the past week, the Sub-Department of Livestock and Animal Health in Bac Giang province has conducted animal quarantine on 173 vehicles transporting poultry, with an average of 500 heads per vehicle, an increase of 74.7 percent compared to the previous week.
(BGO) - Thanks to good disease control and the safe raising of new herds of livestock and poultry since the beginning of 2021, the total number of pigs and fowls in the province has sharply increased compared to the same period last year, according to relevant agencies.
(BGO) - In order to improve economic efficiency, many households and farm owners in Bac Giang province have actively researched and applied science and technology in pig breeding, helping reduce cost, labor and disease risks, and especially ensuring disease-free breeding.
Source: NDO/VNA
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