Avian influenza has grown rapidly on a large scale

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat:

Speaking at the meeting of the National Steering Committee for Avian Influenza Prevention on the afternoon of November 14, once again the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat continued to warn about the risk of outbreaks and the avian influenza epidemic in VN.

According to Minister Cao Duc Phat, until yesterday afternoon the epidemic broke out in 45 communes and wards of 29 districts and towns in 10 provinces and cities across the three regions of the country. In particular, the epidemic this year comes earlier than in 2004, and 'plays very fast, the number of poultry, waterfowl died, destroyed because of a lot of epidemics and widespread occurrence, there is a risk that it will spread even more during the time. next time '.

Mr. Phat stated that in the Mekong Delta only two provinces are Dong Thap and Bac Lieu; Central Vietnam has only Quang Nam; the remaining seven localities with outbreaks are all in the Red River Delta region. This is different from the previous 'rule' of outbreaks in the South and then appeared in the North.

At the meeting, Director of Animal Health Department Bui Quang Anh said that the World Food Organization (FAO) has just made a recommendation: poultry after vaccination for vaccination can be used for food after only 14 days, not must be 28 days as previously recommended.

Mr. Bui Quang Anh also said that so far this unit has imported 220 million doses of vaccine. 52 provinces and cities (including three provinces have completed both injections) have vaccinated for over 100 million poultry and waterfowl.

Minister Phat was very worried about the complicated and unpredictable situation of the epidemic, while in the locality, the epidemic prevention measures were not synchronized.'The detection of the epidemic is very slow, the processing is still embarrassing and slow. People are still indifferent to the epidemic. These are important causes for rapid spread of the disease ' - Mr. Phat said.

Talking with Tuoi Tre, Mr. Bui Ba Bong, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, affirmed that at this time, it is not possible to raise the level of support to farmers who have poultry to destroy because of the epidemic. According to Bong, the current support level of VND 15,000 / child (equivalent to USD 1 / child) is equal, even more than China, Thailand, Indonesia .

Although the level of support for poultry destruction remains the same, Minister Cao Duc Phat said that the agency has completed a number of policies to encourage the conversion of husbandry, slaughtering, poultry and household products. hold ', submit to the Prime Minister for approval.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development proposed incentives and support policies: households with incomes of about 30% or more based on animal husbandry will be supported with a 50% loan interest rate for two years to convert to animal husbandry. medium, or feed other animals. The amount of loan supported is not more than 10 million VND / household.

For small-scale slaughter houses, poultry and poultry products trading will be supported with VND 2 million / household to change jobs. Supporting establishments to slaughter and process poultry to purchase live poultry, live eggs from quarantine establishments have been quarantined at VND 4,000 / kg of live poultry and VND 200 / egg .

DUC BINH

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung: Preventing epidemic is a key task

On the morning of November 14, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and the Government's anti-avian influenza inspection and prevention delegation had a working session with the People's Committee of Binh Duong Province. At the meeting, the Deputy Prime Minister directed Binh Duong province to pay attention to three issues:

First: promoting propaganda.

Second: the province has done a good job of vaccination, so it must pay great attention to the protection of poultry. Third: tight control, detection and timely zoning, extinguishing immediately when there is an outbreak.

The Deputy Prime Minister also emphasized that the translation and prevention room should be considered a key work, not to allow epidemics to occur in humans. Establishments should pause poultry production because if there is no output for livestock production.

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