The Island of Xiamen Is No Longer to Raise Pig

Through more than two years of hard working, the work for banned pig raising inside the Island of Xiamen, Fujian Province has been basically completed in June, 2004.

The sectors related, such as Municipal Bureau of Environmental Protection, the Bureau of Agriculture, the Bureau of Finance and the Bureau of Audit, etc have a combined inspection in two areas of Siming District, including Guanboshan and Huzaishan and found that there was no any pig raised in the two areas. Once pass through the inspection, Xiamen will be the leading city to realize banned pig raising in China.

According to introduction, treatment for pollution from raising livestock and poultry in 2002 is one of the projects that the municipal government will conduct for local residents, which will have been completed with 3 years.

Source: www.zhue.cn