Livestock, poultry smuggled from China into Vietnam grew more

Updated: 18/07/2011 21:54

(Inspector) - It has been identified as leaders of the Animal Health Department (Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development) made ​​way 18/07/2011. According to statistics, from 9 to 15/7/2011, the country did not occur to an outbreak of avian influenza, foot and mouth disease and blue ear does. However, the import of livestock, poultry and meat and poultry tends to increase. Accordingly, Vietnam imported 6,436 cattle live-quota across the border from Cambodia and 755 cow through the ranks from Thailand, smuggled 170 tons of pig slaughter across the border of Lang Son and smuggled 4 tons of chicken waste across the border of Quang Ninh province in China. Along with that is imported 7,967 tons of cattle meat, frozen poultry through the ranks from the United States, Canada, New Zealand ... (which include meat and poultry 83.7%; 8.9% buffalo meat , cows, goats, sheep; 5.6% and 0.8% is pork organs of cattle and poultry). Along with the imported products, in the past week has 12,000 pigs (approximately 900 tons of pork) are transported from the southern provinces in the northern provinces for slaughter for domestic consumption; 8,854 pigs milk (equivalent to 54 tons of pork) and transported to the North for slaughter for export ... Department of Animal Health Leadership identification, cattle prices, increasing domestic poultry so cattle, poultry import quota from other countries into Vietnam in the week higher than other months. Notably, the import quota of cattle across the border also increased more with cattle, poultry smuggled from China into Vietnam and transported from the southern provinces in the North has increased more compared to May 6 / 2011.