The Ha Tinh Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine Subdepartment distributes livestock husbandry and animal disease prevention regulations to nearly 50 livestock farms across the province. Picture: Thanh Nga.
The people have not actively declared livestock farming
According to the provisions of the Livestock Law and Circular 23/2019/TT-BNN-PTNT, all organizations and individuals who raise livestock are required to report their livestock activities to the municipal-level People’s Committee. The declaration is made from the 25th to the 30th of the last month of the quarter.
However, at the time of the review in the first quarter of 2023, there are currently 5/13 districts and cities in Ha Tinh Province that have not yet issued declarations, including: Nghi Xuan District, Vu Quang District, Ha Tinh City and Da Nang City. Ky Anh Township and Hong Linh City.
Tran Hung, director of Ha Tinh Livestock and Veterinary Sub-department, said that in the past the vast majority of livestock households did not report directly, only the village head or the women’s union and members of the veterans’ association explained. for all households in the village.
Data on animal production activities of farms and households are filed with the municipal people’s committee, which are not aggregated and reported, and there are no regulations and instructions on how to report the data to the implementation organization to the district and province at what time.
“Currently, the penalty for reporting violations for small and medium livestock is up to VND 10 million and VND 15 million for large livestock. However, many farms do not pay much attention to this content, even ignoring regulations that make it difficult for specialized authorities to manage and direct livestock and prevent disease,” Hung said.
In his opinion, the sub-department will continue to work in the near future to raise awareness and responsibility of local authorities and growers, and to highlight the rights of farmers to make declarations so that they can implement them voluntarily.
In addition, it advises supervisors on specific instructions for synthesizing and reporting declaration results at all levels in order to monitor and manage animal husbandry activities more accurately and effectively.
Ms. Dang Thi Ngoc, Deputy Head of Cam District Agriculture and Rural Development Department Photo: Thanh Nga.
Mr Nguyen Nghia, deputy director of the Center for the Application of Science, Technology and Plant and Animal Conservation in Can Loc district, said it is extremely difficult to report and sanction violators of domestic animal production.
Since digital technology is developing a lot at the moment, it is believed that the authorities will have to develop an electronic form to replace the paper version for registration on smartphones, from which the professional agency will update and summarize the number of documents. whether in time.
Ms. Dang Thi Ngoc, Deputy Head of the Cam District Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development The Association, farmers, Women’s Union and Village Executive Committees distributed the declaration forms to the masses.
This is a superficial formality that leads to low declaration results, mainly reflecting the total household population, but the quality of the declared data is almost unusable.
“There is a household that raises 5 pigs and who claims and sells quarterly that this amount is absurd. “Although we are aware of the shortcomings, when sanctions are imposed under the regulations currently in place for the agricultural group, there is no procedure to sanction farmers, which reduces people’s compliance,” Ms Ngoc analyzed.
Vaccination is one of the most effective solutions to prevent and control disease in livestock. Picture: Thanh Nga.
Disease management is number 1
About three years ago, in parallel with the drastic organization of livestock and poultry vaccinations, Ha Tinh’s professional sector coordinated with local authorities to promote propaganda and strengthen inspection and supervision of activities. Transport, trade and slaughter of animals and animal products through the territory, contributing to good control of dangerous infectious diseases.
Mr Nguyen Hoai Nam, head of the veterinary administration of the Ha Tinh Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine Subdivision, said the province has had outbreaks of rash, foot-and-mouth disease and swine cholera since the beginning of the year to date. Africa… However, everything was done on a small scale and basically wiped out and controlled on a small scale. So far, all outbreaks have passed 21 days.
Against a background of high manufacturing input prices and low product output, disease management must be given top priority to avoid cost reductions in this category of disease prevention.
In the agricultural field, disease prevention and control are effectively implemented, but farmers are quite arbitrary. Picture: Thanh Nga.
“Market prices rise and fall, it may take a year or two for producers to get their capital back, but the epidemic will wipe out the entire breeding process and lose billions or even tens of billions of dongs.” also address this issue so they can make a living from raising pigs and chickens, and so invest more in disease prevention and control,” said the director of the cooperative, which raises 3,000 pigs for meat and 20,000 commercial chickens in of Xuan My Township, Nghi Xuan District.
Accordingly, disease control is always the top priority for large farms, while for small farms everything is quite arbitrary, from food to seed to vaccination. This leads to a spread of diseases that affect large farms.
Some livestock farms still have signs of epidemics and are not cooperating with the authorities on disease control and surveillance.