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The South Cotabato Provincial Capitol in Koronadal City (Photo courtesy of South Cotabato PIO) KORONADAL CITY - The provincial government of South Cotabato has appealed to the public to refrain from bringing hogs or processed pork meat products from African swine fever (ASF) affected areas to help maintain the status of the province as ASF-free. In a statement Tuesday, Governor Reynaldo Tamayo Jr. said the province's hog industry, which is one of the biggest in the country, must always be protected against the disease. He said the ASF scare could trigger a domino effect on micro, small, and medium enterprises that are also dependent on the hog industry. "The hog raisers are not the only ones who will be affected with ASF but also the attached economic enterprises like the meat processors," Tamayo said. Since last week, the provincial government has tightened its animal border control to monitor the entry of live pigs and pork-based products from ASF-affected areas upon or
Department of Agriculture - Soccsksargen Director Dennis R. Arpia. (File photo courtesy of DA-12 FB page) GENERAL SANTOS CITY - Department of Agriculture - Soccsksargen (DA-12) Director Dennis R. Arpia on Tuesday ordered the stricter implementation of the "1-7-10 protocol" biosecurity and quarantine measure to contain and prevent the spread of African swine fever (ASF) in this city and the rest of the region. In a statement, Arpia called on all local government unit (LGU) officials and swine industry stakeholders to "continuously sustain efforts to manage, contain and control ASF, through the 1-7-10 protocol." This came after the city veterinary office (CVO) confirmed on January 24 an ASF case in Purok San Lorenzo, Barangay Apopong here. The ASF case has been managed and controlled, the CVO declared Monday. Under the 1-7-10 protocol, the local government units (LGUs) will cull all pigs within the 1-kilometer radius of the affected farm, while the movement of pork an
ASF ALERT. Workers from the General Santos City Veterinary Office load swine into trucks in Barangay Apopong and areas within the 500-meter radius for culling at the sanitary landfill of the city on Jan. 25, 2022. Between January 25 and 27, a total of 508 hogs have been culled from the ASF-affected area. (Photo by Richelyn Gubalani.) GENERAL SANTOS CITY - The City Veterinary Office (CVO) confirmed on Thursday one positive case of African swine fever (ASF) in a village here. Dr. Antonio Ephraim Marin, the CVO chief, said the case came from Purok San Lorenzo, Barangay Apopong after several years of zero ASF cases in the city. On January 24, Marin said the Department of Agriculture (DA) satellite laboratory in Barangay Lagao called him up to confirm the case. "The finding was based on the laboratory test result in a blood sample taken from a backyard swine raiser in the village," he said. Veterinary authorities here are in a frantic move to prevent the spread of the ASF that cou