On 30 November 2019, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development issued Circular No. 23/2019/TT-BNNPTNT guiding a number of articles of Law on animal husbandry. This Circular comes into effect from 15 January 2019.
Accordingly, the Circular reflects many notable regulations as follows:
1. Decleration of animal husbandry activities
– Organisations, individuals must declare the number of livestock that they raise to commune-level People’s committee from the 25th to the 30th of the last month of each quarter.
2. Safe distance in livestock farming
– Minimum distance from a small-scale animal husbandry farm to a concentrated area for treatment of domestic and industrial waste, is at least 100 meters; and to a school, a hospital, a market, a water source for residential communities must be at least 150 meters.
– The distance from a medium-sized animal husbandry farm to a concentrated area for treatment of domestic and industrial waste is at least 200 meters; and to a school, a hospital and a market must be at least 300 meters.
– The distance from a large-scale livestock farm to a concentrated area for treatment of domestic and industrial waste must be at least 400 meters, and to a school, a hospital, a market, a water source for the community must be at least 500 meters.
– The distance between 2 different livestock farms is at least 50 meters.
3. Safe distance in breeding honey bees
– The location of breeding honey bee is home to at least 50 domestic bees or 100 foreign bees.
– Distance between 2 locations home to domestic bees is at least 1 km; distance between 2 locations home to foreign bees is at least 2 km; distance between a location home to foreign bees and that to domestic bees is at least 2 km.
Circular No. 23/2019/TT-BNNPTNT provides with many detailed regulations about declaration of and safe distance in animal husbandry activities, helping relevant organizations and invididuals to enforce Law on animal husbandry 2018 effectively.