Swine production and challenges in Vietnam a fter African s wine f ever: a case study i n peri - urban hanoi, Vietnam

Nga, N. T. D.; Hung, P. van Vy le T. L.; Huyen, N. T. T.; Ha, D. N.; Huong, G.

The goal of this paper was to id entify major challenges in rebuilding the swine industry in Vietnam, using the Chuong My district, Hanoi as a case study. Primary data was gathered in 2020 mainly through a survey of 97 swine producers in the district. Analysis tools were descriptive and c omparative statistics. Results show that a fter the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak, the recovery of the swine industry in Vietnam faced several challenges, including the issues of piglet quantity and quality, changing consumer preferences which were wor sened by the current Covid - 19 pandemic, relatively cost disadvantage of domestic production under the context of new free trade agreements, disease risk (ASF under the condition of no effective and safe vaccine), insufficient resources of farms t o restock, and environmental issues caused by swine production in rural areas. The paper proposed several recommendations to re build ing the swine herd in order to address the issues and overcome the challenges, mainly focus on improving sow quality, market informati on and linkages, good practices in production, training for labor, and address environmental issues.