In line with its African swine fever (ASF) monitoring and surveillance intensification effort, the Negros Occidental Provincial Veterinary Office in a joint project with Univet Nutrition and Animal Health Care Company (UNAHCO) issued PVC identification cards to 15,000 PVO-registered swine raisers of the province.
Aside from the profiling of all existing swine raisers in the province, the issued identification cards are purposely to uphold the commitment of cardholders to help protect the swine industry of the province by reporting to the provincial ASF Task Force hotline or to the PVO and district field unit any disease occurrence or signs/symptoms affecting pigs in the locality and the entry, transport, sale of live pigs, pork and pork products coming from any ASF areas prohibited under the Provincial ASF Ordinance, as well as it entitles cardholders to avail of programs and projects extended by the province relative to swine production and marketing.
The profiling of swine raisers also aims to provide updated data on the supply status of slaughter hogs in the province given the increasing demand for such commodities.
Based on PVO records, a total of 24,406 heads were already shipped by our local hog raisers to Luzon as well as to other provinces in the Visayas which were seriously affected by the ASF outbreaks.
Further, the cardholders may also be eligible to be registered under the Registry System for Basic Sectors in Agriculture (RSBSA) through the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation (PCIC).
Provincial Veterinarian Renante Decena has urged every member of the alliance to avail of livestock insurance through PCIC to indemnify their loss in case of livestock morbidity or mortality due to diseases or during calamities.*