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Thursday, July 3, 2014

Pig farms back at Bukit Pelanduk

Pig farmers, on the quiet, have started breeding pigs at the banned area.
Mohamad-Hasan1SEREMBAN: Pig farming was banned in Bukit Pelanduk following the deaths of 108 people due to the Nipah virus outbreak in 1998. But, the farms are back in Bukit Pelanduk.
And Negeri Sembilan Menteri Besar Mohamad Hasan has pointed his finger at local community leaders. He said they are instigating people to continue breeding pigs at the banned area.
“If anything happens, including loss of human life, due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE), that leader will be held completely responsible. We don’t want the incident where people died of JE in Bukit Pelanduk to recur,” he told reporters.
The state government had banned the whole area of Bukit Pelanduk in Port Dickson to be used as a pig breeding area following the spread of the JE outbreak which killed 108 people in the area in 1998.
However, the state government had agreed to allow pig farm operators in Air Kuning, Gemenceh, to continue their operations on condition that they must always ensure that the number of pigs in their farms would not exceed 1,000 and the animal waste would not cause water and air pollution to surrounding areas.
Mohamad said that the Veterinary Services Department has been told to verify this and to take immediate action against those involved.
Bukit Pelanduk, which was once the largest pig farming area in Asia, was deemed not suitable because it had no proper waste treatment facilities, he said.
He was commenting on fears of another viral outbreak after a Year Six pupil in Penang contracted JE while on a camping trip in April.
According to media reports, there were se­ve­ral pig farms with a total of about 10,000 animals within a 1.5km radius of where the boy attended the camp.
JE and Nipah are similar viral strains that can develop in pigs and are spread by Culex mosquitoes when the insects bite the infected animals and then feed on humans.
Mohamad said the state government had valid reasons to ban pig farming in Bukit Pelan­duk and everyone should respect its decision.
“So many people died 16 years ago because pig farming was carried out haphazardly, with­out any concern for the environment and hy­­giene. My administration is not going to allow a recurrence,” he said.
Mohamad said the state government also disallowed the setting up of a 480ha pig-farming area (PFA) in nearby Tanah Merah.
The federal government had decided to set up the PFA following the Nipah outbreak to ensure farmers practised high hygiene stan­dards and to ensure proper waste disposal.
“I notified the federal authorities on this and they were agreeable,” Mohamad said, adding that those who bought plots at the PFA were free to convert them to industrial or mixed development use.
He said the area was also not suitable for pig farming because it was near KLIA and klia2.

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