Taipei, June 8 (CNA) Taiwan will resume fresh pork exports in the second half of 2020 if it is named next week, as expected, as a foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) free country where vaccination is not practiced, the Council of Agriculture (COA) said Monday.
Due to its success in FMD control without vaccination, Taiwan is set to receive notification from the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) of its free of FMD without vaccination status in mid-June after passing various tests and verification, the COA said.
That would make Taiwan one of only two Asian countries other than Japan with that status, according to the COA.
This also means Taiwan can start exporting fresh pork overseas as early as the second half of this year, with Singapore expected to be the first market, COA chief Chen Chi-chung (陳吉仲) has said.
Taiwan currently exports only certain processed pork products to a handful of nations, according to the COA.
A major outbreak of FMD in 1997 dealt a huge blow to Taiwan's pork industry, costing it export orders of NT$60 billion (US$2 billion) a year.
The biggest animal epidemic in Taiwan's agricultural history led to the culling of 4 million pigs and prompted the country to start a vaccination program.
Taiwan started a program to terminate FMD inoculation on July 1, 2018, and after a full year of no infections reported, it applied in July 2019 to the OIE for FMD-free status.
It then submitted an application to the OIE later in 2019 for recognition as a country free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) where vaccination is not practiced.
The OIE is likely to formally notify Taiwan later this month after completing all required procedures, according to the COA.
The number of swine raised in Taiwan totaled 5.51 million and the output value of pig farming was NT$70.9 billion in 2019, according to COA data.
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