State policies on animal husbandry in Vietnam

State policies on animal husbandry in Vietnam (Internet image)

Regarding this matter, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. State policies on animal husbandry in Vietnam

- The State shall make investment in the following activities:

+ Basic statistic and investigation and establishment of animal husbandry database, assessment of livestock breeding and potentials thereof on an annual or 5-year basis; preparation of animal husbandry development strategies, market forecast, storage of animal products in certain period and formulation of standards and regulations on animal husbandry techniques;

+ Preservation of precious and rare livestock gene sources and local livestock breeds

- The State shall provide funding for the following activities in each period according to state budget:

+ Study and application of science and technology in which priority is given to high, advanced and modern technology used for creating a breakthrough in animal husbandry; import and raising of original breeds;

+ Establishment of disease-free zones and biosecurity zones for livestock breeding; handling of breeding environment; development of good breeding practice models; relocation of breeding facilities from cities, district-level towns, commune-level towns or residential areas that are not permitted for livestock breeding.

+ Construction of infrastructure and equipment for scientific and technological research institutions and training institutions; development of high-qualified human resources, training in breeding profession, agriculture promotion in breeding in which priority is given to remote and isolated areas, ethnic minority areas, poor areas and severely poor areas;

+ Creation and development of national animal products or main animal products and organic products; development of national animal product trade mark, construction of concentrated slaughter premises, wholesale markets and auction facilities for advertisement and consumption of livestock breeds and animal products; trade promotion and development of the market for animal product consumption;

+ Assistance in livestock breeding and restoration of livestock breeds after natural disasters or epidemic as per law provisions

- The State encourages entities to invest in activities specified in Clause 1 and 2 this Article and the following activities:

+ Operation of breeding farms or value chain-based livestock production and promotion of the role of enterprises, industry associations and cooperatives in development of livestock value chains;

+ Investment in high, advanced and modern technology for animal product slaughter, processing and maintenance and technology for treatment of livestock breeding waste as fertilizer and serving other purposes;

+ Investment in livestock insurance, improvement of capacity of performing experiments and assessment of conformity in animal husbandry

(Article 4 of the Law on animal husbandry 2018)

2. Prohibited acts in animal husbandry in Vietnam

- Breeding operated in areas not permitted for livestock rearing in cities, district-level towns, commune-level towns and residential zones except for rearing for decoration purpose and laboratory breeding without environmental pollution.

- Use of substances prohibited in animal husbandry

- Use of antibiotics in animal feeds that are not veterinary medicine permitted to be circulated in Vietnam.

- Use of antibiotics in animal feeds as growth stimulants.

- Destruction or appropriation of livestock gene sources.

- Illegal export of precious and rare livestock gene sources.

- Import of animal products with prohibited substances in animal husbandry.

- Import, trade and processing of products made from animals died of diseases or whose death is unexplained.

- Illegal import, rearing, releasing or use of genetically modified animals and products thereof.

- Coercive use or insertion of substances or objects or injection of water into domesticated animal body and products thereof for trade fraud purpose.

- Collusion and cheating in quality experiments, testing, verification and announcement and certification of conformity in animal husbandry.

- Discharge of waste from livestock breeding not undergoing treatment or not treated in a satisfactory manner to places for waste receipt as specified in the law on environmental protection.

- Provide counterfeit information in declaration of animal husbandry for profiteering purpose.

- Obstruction, destruction and encroachment of legal livestock breeding.

(Article 12 of the Law on animal husbandry 2018)

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