Performance of foot-and-mouth disease prevention Jiahualian County won the first place in the national evaluation group.

Performance of foot-and-mouth disease prevention Jiahualian County won the first place in the national evaluation group.

In order to strengthen the prevention measures against foot-and-mouth disease and reduce the risk of the epidemic situation, the Animal and Plant Disease Prevention and Quarantine Bureau of the Agricultural Committee of the Executive Yuan evaluated the implementation effectiveness of various counties and cities according to the evaluation indicators such as the inspection rate of monitoring livestock farms, disinfection and epidemic prevention measures and plan implementation rate. a few days ago, in the national animal epidemic prevention business contact meeting, awards commended 108 excellent counties and cities, Hualien County epidemic prevention achievements, in the evaluation of the effectiveness of foot-and-mouth disease prevention. Won the first place in the second group (more than 70, 000 pigs and less than 300000 pigs).

Wu Kunru, director of agriculture in Hualien County, said that looking back on the large-scale outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in 1986, there was a sharp drop of nearly 5,000 pig farmers and nearly 3 million pigs in a year, coupled with the impact on feed, slaughtering, processing, export, and other related industries. it is estimated that the country's overall economic loss within a year is as high as more than 170 billion yuan, and the disaster is severe. After 23 years of efforts after the foot-and-mouth disease storm, through the active input of industry, government, school, and research, and making concerted efforts to overcome the difficulties, the OIE finally identified it as a non-epidemic area in June this year. In the future, the county government will continue to conduct clinical visits and promotion operations on livestock farms with various public offices, strengthen the inspection of transport vehicles and related field disinfection work, as well as serological surveillance of livestock farms and other epidemic prevention work.

County Mayor Xu Zelwei said that Hualien County won the first place in the second group in the evaluation of the effectiveness of foot-and-mouth disease prevention, which is the result of the joint efforts of the epidemic prevention team and the county's animal husbandry farmers. However, biosafety cannot be relaxed, and the county government will strongly monitor and implement epidemic prevention regulations, make every effort to prevent epidemic diseases and avoid heavy economic losses, and ensure the sustainable development of farmers' livelihood and pig industry.

▲ foot-and-mouth disease prevention performance Jiahualian County won the first place in the national evaluation group.