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View all search resultsAround 350 workers of PT Indo Tirta Suaka, which operates a pig farm in Bulan Island, Batam, Riau Islands, have rejected their termination after Singapore stopped the import of live pigs from farm the in April last year following reports of African swine fever.
Bali Agriculture and Food Security Agency head Ida Bagus Wisnuardhana said on Friday he only “suspects” that Afrian swine fever (ASF) killed the pig. The Agriculture Ministry will likely take another three months to obtain lab test results and confirm the source of the outbreak, he added.
Pig farmers are concerned that the disease is related to the African swine fever outbreak that has resulted in the deaths of almost 50,000 pigs in North Sumatra over the past few months, but Balinese officials have yet to confirm the suspicions, saying they are awaiting the results of laboratory tests.
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