00:00President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Agriculture
00:05to vaccinate pigs against African Swine Fever.
00:09The D.A. has decided to complete the purchase of 600,000 ASF vaccines in December.
00:16Gav Villegas has the details.
00:21President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has ordered the Department of Agriculture
00:26to speed up the rollout of the vaccine against African Swine Fever
00:30to stop the spread of the disease.
00:32President Marcos told Agriculture Secretary Francisco Chu Laurel Jr.
00:37that the ASF is still in the lead
00:39in the effort of the government to lower food inflation.
00:44In his press briefing,
00:45the D.A. has said that the Department of Agriculture
00:49will complete the purchase of 600,000 doses of ASF vaccines in December.
00:55The first 10,000 doses of vaccination will be finished by the end of the month.
01:01The schedule for the award for the next 450,000 doses is October 10,
01:08of which we will take delivery of 150,000 doses by then.
01:12But we hope to complete the procurement of 600,000 doses by the end of December this year.
01:18The D.A. and the Food and Drug Administration
01:22have already rolled out 150,000 doses of ASF vaccines
01:28from a Vietnamese-based company.
01:30The vaccines will be given to pigs from eligible commercial farms,
01:35semi-commercial enterprises, and clustered backyard farms.
01:39The D.A. has also given instructions
01:41to speed up the vaccination against ASF
01:44to increase the number of pigs.
01:47Hopefully, everything will be implemented on schedule
01:52and next year, we will be repopulating the land.
01:56The D.A.'s target is to bring back to Php 14 million
01:59the number of pigs in the country
02:01from Php 7.5 million as of now.
02:04Gab Villegas for Pambansang TV in Bagong, Philippines.
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