Animal trade placed under more scrutiny By WANG XIAODONG | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2021-01-23 07:15 Share CLOSE Farmer Lin Jinghong nurses a bamboo rat in Qinzhou city, South China s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on July 24, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]
Tighter rules will help reduce risk of serious diseases jumping to humans
Trading of animals will be put under greater scrutiny for epidemic prevention and control and public health, according to a revised law adopted by China s top legislature on Friday.
Related departments such as health, rural affairs and wildlife protection at county level or above should establish cooperative mechanisms for the prevention and control of diseases that jump from animals to humans, according to the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law.
January 18, 2021 6:15 pm
The chairperson of the Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers’ Association Farm and Rural Affairs Committee has urged farmers with forestry planted in late 80s and early 90s to think carefully and to seek expert advice before coming to any decision on their timber crop.
Denis Drennan said with the introduction of forestry premium in the late 1980s, many farmers – both at that time and into the 1990s – opted to plant some land and the result today is that they potentially have a very valuable forest.
The committee chairperson said that ensuring farmers get a fair price for this timber is critical “given that you get a single opportunity to sell your timber in a period of 30-40 years”.