Agricultural production in the month focused mainly on harvesting winter-autumn rice and autumn-winter rice nationwide; cultivating winter crops in the Northern provinces
Agriculture
However, farmers need to closely monitor the market situation, the authorities need to provide timely information, control the local
livestock situation, and prevent massive increase which may lead to oversupply, causing the selling price to drop deeply and resulting in losses. Pig raising in the month continued to fall sharply by 22% compared to the same period last year.
Although the African swine cholera epidemic has been controlled in many localities, and some localities have announced the end of the epidemic, the slow re-operation caused by the
psychology of producers who are afraid of the risk of disease recurrence and the reduced supply is the main reason for the high price of live hog in the month.
Accumulated from the beginning of February 2019 to November 19, 2019, African pig cholera outbreaks occurred in 8,505 communes in 666 districts of 63 provinces and cities directly under the
Central Government with the total number of pigs annihilated of nearly 5.9 million, which is equivalent to the total weight of 337.9 thousand tons, of which 54% of communes over 30 days have not detected a new outbreak. Also as of November 19, 2019, the country no longer detected bird flu and
blue-ear disease;
foot and mouth disease has not passed 21 days yet in Quang Tri.
Forestry
Damaged forest area in November was 47.4 hectares, up 42.1% over the same period last year, of which the burnt forest area was 5.2 hectares, more than 2 times; the area of cut and destroyed forests is 42.2 ha, up 37%, of which the highest area is the Central Highlands with 25 ha (Dak Nong 15.5 ha, Kon Tum 3.5 ha, and Lam Dong 4.7 ha). Generally, for 11 months of this year, the damaged forest area was 3,275.2 ha, more than 3 times higher than the same period last year, of which the burnt forest area was 2,707.7 ha, nearly 5 times; the area of cut and destroyed forests is 567.4 ha, increasing by 8.5%.
Fishery
Generally for 11 months of 2019, fishery production was estimated at 7,473.7 thousand tons, up 5.7% over the same period last year, of which aquaculture production reached 3,998.9 thousand tons, up 6.4%; catches of fishery reached 3,474.8 thousand tons, up 4.8% (sea catching production reached 3,298.2 thousand tons, up 5.1%).
Source: GSO
