Vietnam: Even with ASF cases up, pig industry expects growth

Over 230,000 pigs have been sacrificed this year due to African swine fever outbreaks in Vietnam.

The tariff reductions will give U.S. corn, wheat and pork producers greater access to the Vietnamese market.

Here's how Vietnam's pig inventory, pork production, and pork imports are looking so far this year.

Pork was the main driver of this amount with the volume of pork shipments increasing 2.5 fold.

In the first trimester of 2021, 22,000 tons of pork were shipped. This amounted to 43% of all imports of pork in the country.

Africa swine fever was detected in a batch of 980 imported live pigs from Thailand during the quarantine period.

Vietnam will follow a timeline to phase out the preventative use in livestock of antibiotics that are medically important for humans.

Through intensive negotiations, the Federal Ministry has succeeded in getting some third countries to accept regionalization.

Vietnam's pork imports more than tripled last year to make up for the short supply due to African swine fever outbreaks.