Pork Affected by Epidemic to be Compensated at 40,000 VND/kg

Regarding the new regulations, Decree 116/2025/ND-CP, Article 6, stipulates the support levels for production facilities to overcome animal epidemics.

Firstly, for terrestrial animal production facilities:

– Cattle, buffaloes, horses, and goats: 50,000 VND/kg live weight.

– Sheep and starlings: 55,000 VND/kg live weight.

– Pigs: 40,000 VND/kg live weight.

– Poultry (including chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, and pigeons): 35,000 VND/kg live weight.

– Quail: 20,000 VND/kg live weight.

– Ostriches: 50,000 VND/kg live weight.

– Bird eggs (from chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, pigeons, quail, and ostriches): 20,000 VND/kg.

Secondly, for aquatic animal production facilities:

– Spiny lobster juveniles: 10,000 VND/individual.

– Postlarvae of white-legged shrimp and giant shrimp from PL12 stage onwards: 10,000,000 VND/million individuals.

– Fish juveniles (including marine fish, catfish, traditional fish, tilapia, and cold-water fish): 10,000 VND/kg.

– Farming area for extensive shrimp culture (including shrimp-rice, eco-shrimp, forest shrimp, and integrated shrimp farming): 9,000,000 VND/ha.

– Farming area for semi-intensive and intensive giant shrimp culture: 12,000,000 VND/ha.

– Farming area for white-legged shrimp culture: 20,000,000 VND/ha (stocking density of 50-100 individuals/m²), 30,000,000 VND/ha (stocking density of 100-250 individuals/m²), and 50,000,000 VND/ha (stocking density of over 250 individuals/m²).

– Farming area for traditional fish and native fish species: 10,000,000 VND/ha.

– Farming area for intensive catfish culture: 50,000,000 VND/ha.

– Farming area for intensive tilapia culture: 30,000,000 VND/ha.

– Cold-water fish (trout and salmon) reared intensively: 20,000 VND/kg.

– Freshwater aquaculture in cages: 5,000 VND/kg.

– Marine aquaculture in cages: 10,000 VND/kg.

Compared to Decree 02/2017/ND-CP, the new support levels have increased by up to 22%. Notably, the support for pigs that need to be destroyed due to epidemics has increased by 2,000 VND/kg live weight.

According to Article 5 of Decree 116/2025/ND-CP, the specific conditions for support policies to overcome animal epidemics are as follows:

Production facilities with animals or animal products that must be destroyed due to animal epidemics as stipulated in Clause 1, Article 1 of Decree 116/2025/ND-CP, and fall into one of the following cases:

+ For cases where the epidemic has been announced: There are animals or animal products that must be destroyed according to the law in the epidemic area, the threatened area, or the buffer zone;

+ For cases where the conditions for announcing the epidemic have not yet been met: There are animals or animal products at the first epidemic focus with positive test results for diseases listed in the List of animal diseases subject to epidemic announcement or the List of diseases transmitted between animals and humans, or there are animals at the next epidemic focus in the same commune-level area (according to the law on local government organization) that are confirmed by competent authorities to be infected or show signs of infection with the disease that has been detected positive at the first epidemic focus;

+ For cases of new diseases that have appeared in Vietnam but have not yet met the conditions for announcing the epidemic: There is a document from the competent authority as prescribed by the law on veterinary confirming the new infectious agent.

Individuals participating in the control of animal epidemics must be assigned or mobilized in writing by a state agency or unit with competent authority.