Sergei Dankvert, who heads the Rosselkhoznadzor, is confident that the Far Eastern lands of the Russian Federation are in a high-risk zone.

We are talking about the high likelihood of pigs that are kept in livestock farms in the Far East to become infected with the African swine fever virus.

Dankvert sees the reason for the high risk in the close proximity of the Far East to the People's Republic of China, in which outbreaks of ASF are almost commonplace.

Sergei Dankvert shared such considerations at a meeting of members of the intergovernmental commission between experts from the agro-industrial complex of Russia and Argentina, which was held in Buenos Aires.

According to the head of the Russian supervisory authority, it is almost impossible to reduce the risks of infecting Far Eastern pigs with a dangerous virus, since infection occurs through the contact of Russian pigs with wild animals that come from the Chinese side and are carriers of the disease.

The head of the Rosselkhoznadzor also emphasizes that in the next three years, the virus of African swine plague can lead the entire world meat market to a critical point.

“It is unlikely that anyone will be able to provide China with meat in the amount that he can request as a result of the plague of his own animals from ASF,” Dankvert suggested. He also does not exclude that the mass death of pigs in China will increase the demand of the people of China not only for pork, but also for beef and poultry from suppliers from all over the world.