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Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan visits Hoang Long Livestock Corporative in Thanh Oai District in Hanoi. (Photo: SGGP) Pork price at only VND35,000 per kg According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, currently, a large number of workers in some localities have not returned to big cities to work, schools are still closed, and restaurants receive a limited number of guests, so the consumption of food remains low. This situation led to a sharp drop in the price of pigs. The live pork price was at VND70,000-VND75,000 per kg in March and April, but from the beginning of October until now, it has fluctuated around VND35,000-VND45,000 per kg, even below VND35,000 per kg in some localities for overaged pigs, weighing from 130 kg to 160 kg. In the past 2-3 days, pork prices in some places have increased by VND5,000-VND6,000 per kg as consumer demand tends to climb, and travel becomes more convenient after the pandemic has been gradually …

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Waste of agricultural by-products Nguyen Thi Thien, Director of the Thai Hung Thinh Joint Stock Company, said her company has a farm in Binh Phuoc Province, part of which is raising 500 pigs per batch using biological products for waste treatment. Over the past five years, the farm has never experienced pig epidemics and related environmental pollution, Thien said. According to her, durian skins can be processed into activated carbon and wood vinegar for use in agricultural production, and farms can use coconut tree-based products and intercrop coconut with shrimp farming to increase income. According to data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development’s Department of Livestock Production, the amounts of post-harvest agricultural by-products are large: 42.8 million tonnes of rice straw, 10 million tonnes of corn stalks, 3.6 million tonnes of vegetables and fruits, 3.1 million tonnes of cassava stalks, 3.1 million tonnes of cashews, and 6.1 million tonnes of other …

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According to the data of the Department of Animal Health, the volume of imported meat in the first nine months of this year was 214,400 tons, with 112,700 tons of pork, merely accounting for 3.6 percent of the total domestic pork production . Last year, the country imported 599,000 tons of meat, with 225,500 tons of pork, accounting for 6.4 percent of the domestic pork production. “As imported pork only accounts for a small proportion of the total domestic pork production, import is not the main reason that makes live pork prices decline over the past time,” the Office of the MARD informed the press. On the same day, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien chaired an online meeting to discuss measures to stabilize the production, processing, and consumption of livestock products. Deputy Director of the Department of Animal Health Nguyen Van Long affirmed the information that Vietnam imported up to 256,000 tons of pork in the first eight months of …

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