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By March 16, 87 percent of 9,711 qualified feed producers had resumed operation, and feed production saw a 2-percent growth in the first two months from the previous year, Wei Hongyang, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs told a press conference on March 19.
The slaughtering industry also reported a work resumption rate of 87 percent among hog-slaughtering enterprises in the country and 83 percent of poultry slaughterhouses in 16 provincial-level regions had returned to work, Wei said.
Meanwhile, about 85 percent of companies related to veterinary drugs had also resumed production by March 16, while all manufacturers of vaccines for the highly pathogenic avian influenza and foot-and-mouth disease are operating, according to Wei.
23 March 2020/ MARA/ China.
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