Regarding the situation live hog price in the North has reached the threshold, privately exchanged with the writer on the sidelines of the Link Forum to participate in this global agricultural value chain 8/10, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Ha Cong Tuan affirming that in the coming time, the Ministry will have solutions to stabilize prices.
“Domestic live hog prices are high but we will not let prices too high like China,” said Deputy Minister Ha Cong Tuan.
The Deputy Minister mentioned a number of measures to stabilize the pork supply, including imports.
“Of course, we will still have to import pork. However, the meat import is not only based on domestic demand but also trade relations with other countries,” Deputy Minister Ha Cong Tuan said.
In addition, a representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that the ministry is currently encouraging unspecified areas African swine cholera or areas that have met the criteria for the safety of the disease again, even increased the herd; parallel to the use of other meats such as beef, chicken, duck … to make up for pork.
Previously, at the third quarter meeting of the Steering Committee, assessing the situation of the direction and administration of prices in the first 9 months of the year, discussing the directions for the last months of the year and the 2020 orientation taking place on September 27, Deputy Prime Minister General Vuong Dinh Hue asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to calculate and evaluate more cautiously, with a very detailed scenario, because China is currently worried about the pork crisis because of a shortage of 20 million tons, the pork collection situation of Vietnam exports to China began to increase.
The Deputy Prime Minister asked the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development to make specific calculations on the consumption of buffaloes, cows and poultry to make up for pork, not simply due to Asian consumer habits in general.
“It is not just a matter of replacing buffaloes, cows and poultry instead of pork. For Asians in general, pork is an important food item … The increase in the herd of buffaloes, cows, poultry and other products is only is to compensate for the shortage and compensate for the reduction of GDP growth, but to compensate
