The reporter learned from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on February 17 that the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs recently held a video conference on the deployment of animal husbandry and veterinary work in 2025, requiring severe crackdown on illegal additions and private slaughtering and other illegal acts, and resolutely defend the bottom line of safety.

The meeting pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the supervision of the entire chain of feed, veterinary drugs, and slaughter, severely crack down on illegal addition and private slaughtering and other illegal additions and private slaughtering, seriously rectify the chaos in online sales of veterinary drugs, strictly and meticulously carry out safety production, and strive to improve the disaster prevention and reduction capabilities of animal husbandry.

The meeting proposed that we must do everything possible to stabilize animal husbandry production, accelerate the implementation of policies, strengthen monitoring and early warning, prevent and resolve risks, and focus on guiding the adaptive adjustment of the production of live pigs and beef cows and dairy cows, stabilize basic production capacity, and do a good job in countercyclical regulation to promote balance of production and demand and recovery of efficiency.

The meeting made it clear that it is necessary to implement classified measures to accurately prevent and control animal epidemics, implement source prevention and control measures in detail, improve the direct reporting mechanism for epidemics, strictly implement the compulsory immunization system, and effectively strengthen animal quarantine supervision to ensure that no major regional animal epidemics occur.

The meeting pointed out that we must focus on the overall situation and fully implement the grain saving action in the aquaculture industry, mobilize and form a joint force, strengthen basic support and typical demonstration and leadership, fully tap and utilize alternative resources, accelerate the filling of the shortcomings in the supply of forage, and achieve grain saving, consumption reduction, cost-reduction and efficiency improvement. (Gu Yiping, Long Xinyi)