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| Farmer sterilizes his pig farm__Photo: Hoang Nhi/VNA |
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has ordered drastic and effective implementation of solutions to prevent and control livestock and poultry diseases.
According to Telegram 58/CD-TTg of June 16, the PM asked related ministers, heads of related agencies and chairpersons of provincial-level People’s Committees to direct and mobilize legal resources to completely handle outbreaks and prevent new ones from arising; cull infected or suspected animals; and proactively carry out measures and policies to support affected farmers.
The cabinet leader also asked them to promptly detect, prevent, and resolutely handle cases of trading and transporting sick animals, and dumping dead ones that spread diseases and pollute the environment.
It is essential to carry out the vaccination against diseases for livestock, ensuring that at least over 80 percent of the total available livestock are inoculated as soon as possible, he stressed, asking for a timely and effective implementation of vaccination against avian influenza, rabies, African swine fever, foot-and-mouth disease, and others.
The Government leader emphasized the need to step up the dissemination work to raise farmers’ awareness and responsibility about the risk of epidemics and measures to prevent and control them.
Statistics show that so far this year, African swine fever has been reported in 40 provinces and cities with 17,400 animals culled while foot-and-mouth disease has been seen in 13 provinces and cities, rabies in 34 provinces and cities, papular dermatitis in nine provinces, and A/H5N1 bird flu in seven provinces.-(VLLF)
