African Swine Fever Branded a National Crisis in ‘Stunning’ Blow to China
- State Council set to discuss ways to maintain pork supply
- China Animal Agriculture Association calls for extra funding
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African swine fever, the contagious disease ravaging China’s pig herds, represents a national crisis requiring more government funding to quell, the head of an agriculture group said.
The full extent of the damage to the country’s $128 billion pork industry is still being fathomed, and any estimate of the economic impact from the virus on the swine industry will be “stunning,” Li Xirong, director of the China Animal Agriculture Association, told more than 400 people involved in the sector at a meeting in the eastern city of Wuhan Thursday.