Southeast Asia is preparing for a long war against African swine fever, a viral disease that is threatening both domestic and wild pigs.
Southeast Asia is preparing for a long war against African swine fever , a highly infectious and lethal disease that reached China in 2018 and has since spread south, threatening both domestic and wild pigs.
In China, officials followed the elimination playbook, culling herds with infected animals as well as euthanizing pigs in a 3-kilometer zone around infected farms. Farmers were compensated for their losses, but the campaign helped reshape the nation’s pork industry, Pfeiffer says. Prior to the virus’ arrival, an estimated 40 million small farmers raised pigs. Now, that number has been cut in half, and industrial farms have grabbed a larger share of the pork market.
Last year, FAO tested these and related measures on 20 farms in the village of Sagcungan on the Philippines’s Mindanao Island, spending a modest $325 per farm. The result “was a paradigm shift in attitude among farmers,” says Samuel Castro, deputy head of the Philippines’s ASF prevention and control program. Tellingly, an ASF outbreak in a nearby village never reached those farms.
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