Joint animal-quarantine project starts in south Yunnan

The groundbreaking ceremony for a project that involves a slaughterhouse and a quarantine field for cross-border animals was held near the China-Myanmar border in south Yunnan’s Xishuangbanna Prefecture on March 15, according to local inspection and quarantine authorities.

With an investment of 120 million yuan, the 23-hectare field will have an annual capacity of quarantining 500,000 beeves to be imported from Myanmar. The slaughtering and processing house, in which a total of 1.1 billion yuan will be invested, occupies an area of 15.2 hectares. 

In November last year, officials with Myanmar Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation visited a pig slaughtering and meat processing details of the Phoenix Natural Food Company in central Yunnan's Yuxi City, during the week-long 2017 Yunnan-Myanmar Animal and Plant Quarantine Technology Worship.

Source: Yunnan Daily; trans-editing by Wang Shixue