Last year, the Ministry of Rural Agriculture issued the "Guidelines for Strengthening Measures for the Prevention and Control of African Swine Fever", in accordance with the spirit of the "Guidelines", from April 1, 2021, the "New Regulations on the Transportation of Live Pigs" will be implemented, and it will be difficult to sell pigs in other places!
So, what are the contents of the "New Regulations on Pig Transportation"?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" >, strengthen the sampling test for the entry of pigs out of large counties, large-scale pig farms and other high-risk areas</h1>
From April 1, 2021, animal health supervision agencies should organize inspection and quarantine personnel to conduct sampling and testing of pigs transferred out of large counties, large-scale pig farms and other high-risk areas from time to time, and implement a supervision responsibility system to randomly sample and test large-scale pig farms with an annual output of 500-2000 heads to ensure that pigs do not carry any virus.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" > Second, strictly implement the quarantine system before pigs come out of the pen</h1>
Before the pigs are out of the pen, the animal health supervision agency must urge the farm or farmer to declare quarantine according to law. At the same time, it is also necessary to check the health status of the pigs, the ear tags of the pigs and the filing of the pig transport vehicles, and ensure that the pigs shipped out are consistent. For pig transport vehicles that have not been filed, pigs must not be transported, and for pig transport vehicles that have been filed, dynamic management should be implemented, and once it is found that the pig transport vehicles that have been filed have irregularities, the filing will be cancelled immediately.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" >3. African swine fever testing is carried out on pig transport vehicles that have been filed regularly</h1>
For those pig transport vehicles that have been filed, it is necessary to conduct Regular African Swine Fever testing, and when the vehicle is detected positive, it will be required to file the pig transport vehicle for rectification, and the filing will be suspended until the inspection is qualified.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="18" >4. Strongly implement zoning prevention and control</h1>
From April 1, 2021, the cross-regional transfer of live pigs other than piglets and breeding pigs will be gradually restricted, and the prevention and control of zoning will be effectively done. In principle, live pigs cannot be transferred out of the region; if it is necessary to transfer live pigs out of the region, they must be sampled in accordance with the regulations, and after passing the sampling inspection, they will be transported "point-to-point" by the designated route.
The above is the general content of the "new regulations on the transportation of live pigs" that must be implemented from April 1, which shows that it is difficult for pig breeding enterprises to sell pigs in different places.
It seems relatively easy to understand the filing system for pig transport vehicles, but it is not easy to understand that live pigs are not allowed to be transported "across regions". Because many people do not know what a "region" is, it is bound to cause difficulties in understanding.
So, what is "cross-region"?
The term "region" comes from Italy and France, because in Italy and France, the "region" is a first-level administrative region.
According to the data, there are 26 regions in France and 20 regions in Italy. Beneath each region, france or Italy, france or Italy is divided into a number of secondary administrative divisions, of which are called "provinces".
The Ministry of Rural Agriculture did not clearly indicate what a "region" is in the "Guidelines for Enhanced Measures for the Prevention and Control of African Swine Fever" issued by the Ministry of Rural Agriculture, so we will have a very vague concept of "region". However, we have found the answer from the "new regulations for the transportation of live pigs" issued by Guangxi. The "New Regulations on Pig Transportation" issued by Guangxi says as follows:
Since April 1, except for breeding pigs and piglets from other provinces in the central and southern regions (Guangdong, Hainan, Fujian, Hunan and Jiangxi), pigs from other provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) have been suspended from being transferred to our region. Breeding pigs and piglets transferred from other provinces in central and southern regions to our district have implemented a "point-to-point" transfer reporting system.
It can be seen that the "large region" mentioned in the "Guidelines for Strengthening measures for the prevention and control of African Swine Fever" issued by the Ministry of Rural Agriculture should refer to: northeast China, northwest China, north China, central China, east China, south China, and southwest China.