Pork industry: "Welcome to the roadmap for the eradication of swine fever"

Published Nov 12, 2025

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[Korea Farmers' News Agency Reporter Ahn Hyeong-jun] Amid the government's announcement of the 'African Swine Fever Eradication Roadmap' and the 'Improved Swine Wasting Disease Prevention and Management Plan' for sustainable development and productivity enhancement of the Korean pork industry, the pork industry has evaluated these measures as realistic and field-centered, with active reflection of farmers' opinions. The Korea Pork Producers Association (President Lee Ki-hong) issued a statement expressing its welcome of the 'African Swine Fever Eradication Roadmap' and the 'Improved Swine Wasting Disease Prevention and Management Plan' presented by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs last Sunday. The core of the government's announced measures is to achieve the status of a CSF-free country by 2023 and the prevention of Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea (PED).

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"Measures reflecting farmers' opinions Evaluated as 'bloodline-based and field-centered'" Improvement demands for PED·PRRS etc. also Reflecting on-site improvement requests is significant Amidst the government's announcement of the 'Pig Fever Disease Clean-up Roadmap' and the 'Improved Management Plan for Porcine Epidemic Diseases' to ensure sustainable development and productivity improvement in the pork industry, the pork industry has evaluated these measures as realistic and field-centered, with farmers' opinions actively reflected. The Korea Pork Producers Association (President Lee Ki-hong) issued a statement expressing its welcome of the 'Pig Fever Disease Clean-up Roadmap' and the 'Improved Management Plan for Porcine Epidemic Diseases' announced by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries on the 7th. The core of the government's announced measures is to achieve the status of a CSF (Classical Swine Fever) clean country by 2023 and to minimize the occurrence of ...

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