According to the ministry’s Import and Export Department, the agency instructed Vietnamese trade representatives abroad to work with local pork exporters.
Vietnam imports pork to ease the domestic market's shortage
To date, roughly 50 foreign companies, including those from the US, France and Belgium, have agreed to export pork to Vietnam.
Earlier, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue asked the ministries of industry and trade and agriculture and rural development to co-operate with firms for importing some 100,000 tonnes of pork until the end of the first quarter of 2020.
The Import and Export Department reported that pork import prices have increased since mid-November last year due to the high demand.
People are advised to update the information about pork prices and import to avoid rampant pig breeding.
The two ministries have also joined hands to tighten control over the pork quality and prices.
Over the recent days, pork prices in many localities have tended to be on the fall by VND10-20,000 per kilo, which is particularly thanks to many big businesses participating in goods price stabilisation programmes before Tet.
African Swine Fever has also been controlled in some localities.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said that by late December last year, the country’s pig number decreased by 25% on-year. The total live pig amount sold to the market was estimated at 3.29 million tonnes last year, down 13.8% on-year.
