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City cracks down on mystery meat

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Update: June, 09/2017 – 09:00

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A meat market in HCM City. — VNA/VNS Photo Thế Anh
Viet Nam News HCM CITY — Pork without clear origins will not be allowed to be sold in HCM City’s two main wholesale markets–Hóc Môn and Bình Điền–starting next month, the city administration has announced.

The city will closely control the origin of pork at wholesale markets at first, and after July 30 the policy will be applied to other food products, deputy chairman of the city’s People’s Committee Trần Vĩnh Tuyến told a meeting with the city’s Food Safety Management Board and officials from 24 districts on Wednesday. Tiếp tục đọc “City cracks down on mystery meat” →

Cheap meat imports affecting domestic animal breeders

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Last update 12:00 | 21/04/2017
VietNamNet Bridge – The average price for imported pork is now $1.2 per kilo, or VND27,000, while the domestic pork price has dropped dramatically to a 30-year low.vietnam economy, business news, vn news, vietnamnet bridge, english news, Vietnam news, news Vietnam, vietnamnet news, vn news, Vietnam net news, Vietnam latest news, Vietnam breaking news, livestock, MARD, import meat

According to GDC, by mid-March, Vietnam had imported 7,800 tons of pork of different kinds, worth $9.4 million. The figure represented a 16 percent increase in quantity and 21 percent in value compared with the same period last year.

As such, one kilo of imports is priced at $1.2. Post-slaughter by-products were imported at $0.88 per kilo (5,400 tons were imported, worth $4.8 million), while fresh pork was VND42,500 per kilo, Tiếp tục đọc “Cheap meat imports affecting domestic animal breeders” →

Agro ministry proposes solutions to help pig-farming industry

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Update: April, 20/2017 – 16:00

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HÀ NỘI — Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường has submitted a variety of potential solutions to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc to help the struggling pig-farming industry recover.

The move comes after the price of live pigs kept falling, dropping to VNĐ30,000 (US$1.32) per kilo in recent months. With no indication of an end to this downward spiral, pig breeders across the country are facing losses, the Infonet online newspaper reported. Tiếp tục đọc “Agro ministry proposes solutions to help pig-farming industry” →