Abstract
Official journal of the Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, University of Peradeniya. Tropical Agricultural Research publishes complete accounts of research of outstanding significance, together with critical review articles on all aspects of agriculture including agronomy and crop production, horticulture, agricultural biology, food and nutrition, soil and water resource management, agricultural engineering, agricultural economics, animal science, biotechnology, plant protection, genetics and plant breeding.Tropical Agricultural Research is now indexed in DOAJ.
Highlights
Along with the economic growth, meat production has been increasing in Asia (Fig. 1)
Studies done at the Information Center of Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) were used to understand the situation of pig farming in Vietnam
In Asia, the first case of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome (PRRS) outbreak was reported from China in 1995, and in 2006, China was hit by an atypical highly virulent strain of PRRS virus
Summary
Along with the economic growth, meat production has been increasing in Asia (Fig. 1). Pigs are important for farmers as a major source of family income or as a ‘savings bank’ in Asia (Steinfeld, 1998). Vietnam is a major pork producing country in Asia, producing 2.9 million tons in 2009. Pork is the most important agricultural product in Vietnam, contributing 58% to the total agricultural GDP and 80% of the total meat production. Pig farming is an important income generating activity among agricultural population in rural areas in Vietnam. Pig selling is the major income source of these farms (Lemke et al, 2008). Severe animal diseases tend to damage the pig production sector of this country
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