Millions of small pig farmers in Asia threatened by swine fever outbreak

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(This post was written by Thin Lei Win and originally posted on Thomson Reuters in which Thin interviewed Hung Nguyen, ILRI regional representative for East and Southeast Asia)

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Millions of small-scale pig farmers across Asia risk falling into poverty due to the rapid spread of African swine fever, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. Read more

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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