Ho Chi Minh City: 'impartial' buying and selling poultry

Despite the recommendations of avian flu that can spread into pandemics, we note that the sale of live quarantine poultry still occurs in many places and poultry in many places, still pouring into Ho Chi Minh City. .

A chicken trader on National Highway 1A was discovered by Binh Chanh Veterinary, he immediately phoned to "alert" the cars behind him.

Although the road to the chicken market Tran Chanh Chieu had a ban on buying and selling live poultry, the market did not see any birds in the market but just by walking, we were invited by more than a dozen people to buy live chickens and ducks.

On the afternoon of October 26, a woman stood in front of the veterinary checkout . . Knowing we want to find chickens and ducks alive in large numbers, she quickly:

' How much is needed. Please take care of me, please take me there '. However, we asked if the chickens and ducks were quarantined, she hummed: ' What are the ducks and chickens doing through quarantine? Only chickens and ducks do the quarantine bags '.

About 15 meters away, we were also offered a fruit from a sister to buy chicken! Waiting for the guests to nod, she quickly went into the house and took out a basket to squeeze four chickens. She made a price of 40,000 VND / kg of roosters, 30,000 VND / kg of hens: 'The chickens and ducks at this time are difficult to transport and trade, so the price has increased a little '. Asking about quarantine, she nodded: ' Yes, not quarantine why dare you sell !? . But when we asked to see the quarantine, she pretended: ' This is a chicken from Tien Giang. It is safer than industrial chickens that have been disqualified .

At other markets, we did not have a hard time finding the " furry " duck chicken. Visiting a lonely duck meat without quarantine in Ba Chieu Market (Binh Thanh District), we were also rushed into the house by a salesman to bring out a couple of ducks who squawked. According to the two duck sellers talking to each other, they went to buy back a nearby slaughter facility.

At Tan Son Nhi Market (Binh Tan District), asking to buy raw chicken, the owner earnestly said: ' Yes, I took it, I operated on the spot for you to bring back '. But when we offered to buy a lot, the shopkeeper expressed doubts and repudiation: 'The time of veterinary service is very intense, and if there is still a lot of live chickens that are sold, I want to buy more then go to Cu Chi, Hoc Mon to search for garden '.

Walking through Hoc Mon, Ba Chieu and Tan Binh markets as well as the temporary markets of Nguyen Thai Son and Cau markets, fresh poultry meat is still sold.

At Thi Nghe market, we were also able to sell chickens to 'go to school ' because of the crime of 'being shy ' because when we asked to buy a pair of ducks, the price was finished, we were about to cut off the spot. is veterinary? . The lady threw the knife to the ground, rolling her eyes: ' What is the duck's health, so good and so good, asking? Shy, don't eat. What documents '. In Tam Binh market area (Thu Duc district), a villager said: 'The ducks who sell chicken and ducks here do not dare to sell them openly, but they come to the fish market and ask them if they have it .'

No more concealment as in the inner city, the more people go to the coastal areas, the more public trade in poultry is. On the morning of October 26, according to many small traders in Binh Chanh market, the veterinary station has just ' swept ' over so much of the live chickens and chickens have been ' dispersed '. However, at the end of the market, there are still some chickens and live ducks displayed on the way. Put a couple of ducks in our face, he sells marketing products: 'Your dwarf neck duck is very good! . In terms of quarantine, he innocently explained: ' Death and death are all dead. Quarantine, then check, but when I die, I will die .

Besides buying and selling, poultry farming still exists in many places in Ho Chi Minh City. A veterinarian admits: ' There are still many places in the inner city where chickens are raised, especially stone chickens '. Indeed, according to a seller of bamboo cages that kept chickens in Hoa Hao Street, District 10, there are still many "people" who come to buy cages. On the roadside Dao Duy Tu, early in the morning, there are many 'people' holding chickens and drinking coffee.

YEN TRINH - QUANG KHAI - Đ.HƯNG