Meat Trade News Daily
Srun Pov, president of Association of Pigs Raising in Cambodia, said Wednesday that about 1,000 pigs are illegally imported from Viet Nam into Cambodia every day, and some of them are ill.
He said if such situation continued, the pig raising industry in Cambodia will be dead, adding that the pigs imported from Vietnam are priced at just over 6,000 riel (about 1.42 US dollars) per kilogram, about 3,000 riel cheaper than pigs raised in Cambodia.
Srun Pov, however, acknowledged that throughout Cambodia, a total of more than 4,000 pigs are needed for daily consumption, and in Phnom Penh alone it needs between 1,200 to 1,300 pigs, but the domestic pigs in Cambodia is not sufficient.
He said the country lacks about 700 to 800 pigs per day, but farmers are discouraged to raise pigs because of those imported ones from neighboring countries.
Cambodia allowed to import 800 pigs per day from Thailand, but as their price is higher than those imported from Vietnam, Thai pigs import have been stalled over the past months, said Srun Pov.
In May this year, Curtis Hundley, chairman of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) of the USAID said Cambodia had imported about one million pigs per year from Thailand alone and that had lost about 45 million US dollars a year to the farmers' pockets.
Cambodia is an agrarian country and rich in natural resources, while it still imports pigs, chicken and fish from neighboring countries as well as other household stuff and products for daily consumption.
He said if such situation continued, the pig raising industry in Cambodia will be dead, adding that the pigs imported from Vietnam are priced at just over 6,000 riel (about 1.42 US dollars) per kilogram, about 3,000 riel cheaper than pigs raised in Cambodia.
Srun Pov, however, acknowledged that throughout Cambodia, a total of more than 4,000 pigs are needed for daily consumption, and in Phnom Penh alone it needs between 1,200 to 1,300 pigs, but the domestic pigs in Cambodia is not sufficient.
He said the country lacks about 700 to 800 pigs per day, but farmers are discouraged to raise pigs because of those imported ones from neighboring countries.
Cambodia allowed to import 800 pigs per day from Thailand, but as their price is higher than those imported from Vietnam, Thai pigs import have been stalled over the past months, said Srun Pov.
In May this year, Curtis Hundley, chairman of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) of the USAID said Cambodia had imported about one million pigs per year from Thailand alone and that had lost about 45 million US dollars a year to the farmers' pockets.
Cambodia is an agrarian country and rich in natural resources, while it still imports pigs, chicken and fish from neighboring countries as well as other household stuff and products for daily consumption.
5 comments:
The monkey Cambodian govr-ment did't dare to do anything about this problem--that is why some of them got the pig flue H1N1.
I should call this the Hun1 and Sen1's flue.
you pay for the cheap youn's pig, then you get sick from it. please prefer khmer's pig, not youn's or siem's pigs! khmer's pig, the price is worth it because it is raised in cambodia and a lot safer than pigs imported from youn or siem country!
Ye, Khmer is pig. Don't eat pork, eat shit. Dumbass Khmai
isn't it illegal for pigs to cross into cambodia? especially ill pigs!
It's not easy to stop pig import if they really want to do it. Just police on the road, at the border, etc. But the police aren't doing their job and neither are the govt officials.
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