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Thailand restricts movements of live pigs
BANGKOK, June 30 (TNA) - The Thai Ministry of Commerce has issued an order to restrict movements of live pigs to border areas, following excessive smuggling of pigs to neighboring countries recently.
Thai caretaker commerce minister Pornthiva Nakasai said that the order, resolved by her ministry's committee on product and service prices, takes effect from June 30, and that government agencies concerned, including her ministry's Department Internal Trade and the Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives' Department of Livestock Development will keep monitoring live pigs movements in the country, with violators liable to a five-year imprisonment and/or a fine of 100,000 baht each.
Pornthiva acknowledged, however, that the official order on the restriction of live pigs movements are not applied to legal trade and exports of pigs; so, movements of live pigs can be carried on in inner areas across the country, and that only movements of large lots of live pigs, or more than 10 pigs weighing 80 kilograms each, are to be officially permitted first.
According to official statistics, Thailand exported some 92,000 live pigs from January to May last year and then soared to 180,000 pigs during the same period this year, thanks to higher prices of live pigs in neighboring markets.
At present, the prices of live pigs on the domestic market range from 70 to 75 baht per kilogram. The Thai minister said she expects that the local live pig prices will be dropping to its normal level at around 70 baht per kilogram within a week and at 65 baht per kilogram within a few weeks, after her ministry's restriction of live pigs movements to border areas takes effect. (TNA)
Thai caretaker commerce minister Pornthiva Nakasai said that the order, resolved by her ministry's committee on product and service prices, takes effect from June 30, and that government agencies concerned, including her ministry's Department Internal Trade and the Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives' Department of Livestock Development will keep monitoring live pigs movements in the country, with violators liable to a five-year imprisonment and/or a fine of 100,000 baht each.
Pornthiva acknowledged, however, that the official order on the restriction of live pigs movements are not applied to legal trade and exports of pigs; so, movements of live pigs can be carried on in inner areas across the country, and that only movements of large lots of live pigs, or more than 10 pigs weighing 80 kilograms each, are to be officially permitted first.
According to official statistics, Thailand exported some 92,000 live pigs from January to May last year and then soared to 180,000 pigs during the same period this year, thanks to higher prices of live pigs in neighboring markets.
At present, the prices of live pigs on the domestic market range from 70 to 75 baht per kilogram. The Thai minister said she expects that the local live pig prices will be dropping to its normal level at around 70 baht per kilogram within a week and at 65 baht per kilogram within a few weeks, after her ministry's restriction of live pigs movements to border areas takes effect. (TNA)
