AS he welcomed the scheduled local rollout of the Vietnamese vaccine found effective against African swine fever (ASF) in two months, a senior lawmaker on Thursday reiterated his proposal for the Department of Agriculture (DA) to provide the anti-ASF shots free of charge to small or backyard hog raisers.
AS he welcomed the scheduled local rollout of the Vietnamese vaccine found effective against African swine fever in two months, a senior lawmaker on Thursday reiterated his proposal for the Department of Agriculture to provide the anti-ASF shots free of charge to small or backyard hog raisers.
Villafuerte, who has been advocating for free DA shots for backyard growers since last year, reiterated his proposal following Agriculture Secretary Francis Tiu Laurel Jr.’s recent announcement about the vaccine’s rollout, initially for government use, by September. Savellano said that the DA prioritizes helping backyard raisers, who account for around 70 percent to 80 percent of the country’s hog producers. country’s hog producers.
For Villafuerte, the vaccine rollout is expected to “reinvigorate” the local hog industry, which “continues to reel from a pork supply shortfall and the consequent market price spike despite the numerous policy measures that the DA and its BAI have initiated in recent years to repopulate the domestic pig population in the face of recurring ASF outbreaks nationwide.
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