The capital's Industry and Trade Department is drafting regulations thatwill close traditional inner-city slaughterhouses that fail to meethygiene and food safety standards before the end of the year.
Outer suburban abattoirs will be forced to close with the completion of eight modern abattoirs by 2012.
The department's Trade Management Unit director Ho Quoc Khanh said theprospective regulation was intended to eliminate unhygienic abattoirsand provide Hanoi with safe, clean meat.
"Manypeople have complained about the traditional slaughterhouses becausethey lack quarantine seals and usually discharge untreated waste intotheir surrounds," the director said.
"Many inscattered corners of the city operate irregularly; they have thecapacity to slaughter only 2-3 pigs and about 20 fowls each day and thismakes them difficult to control."
The department planned to have more than 131ha set aside for both modern and traditional abattoirs.
It would ask the municipal People's Committee to devise policies that would attract investment in modern slaughterhouses.
These could include extended land leases; low-interest credit and support with the facilities.
The department would also ask local administrators to identify thelocation for traditional slaughterhouses to ensure hygiene.
Departmental figures show that Hanoi has 17 traditionalslaughterhouses and more than 3,720 irregular private slaughterhousesthat supply almost 80 percent of the market's demand of meat.
It has only five modern abattoirs.
Their capacity is 1,200 pigs and 14,500 other animals, including fowls, each day.
The city consumes about 600 tonnes of meat daily.
Minh Hien Co Ltd director Nguyen Thi Hien said the abattoir had workedat just 10 percent of its total capacity of 700 animals a day since itopened in 2006.
Although the surrounding Thanh Oaidistrict had thousands of butchers, none hired her company to slaughterfor them as the price was 30 percent higher than at a traditionalabattoir.
The strict hygiene-and-safety regulations also made them hesitate, she said.
The Food Import-Export Joint Stock Company's modern abattoir in DanPhuong district sends most of it produce to supermarkets.
The department will soon put its draft regulations to the Hanoi People's Committee./.
Outer suburban abattoirs will be forced to close with the completion of eight modern abattoirs by 2012.
The department's Trade Management Unit director Ho Quoc Khanh said theprospective regulation was intended to eliminate unhygienic abattoirsand provide Hanoi with safe, clean meat.
"Manypeople have complained about the traditional slaughterhouses becausethey lack quarantine seals and usually discharge untreated waste intotheir surrounds," the director said.
"Many inscattered corners of the city operate irregularly; they have thecapacity to slaughter only 2-3 pigs and about 20 fowls each day and thismakes them difficult to control."
The department planned to have more than 131ha set aside for both modern and traditional abattoirs.
It would ask the municipal People's Committee to devise policies that would attract investment in modern slaughterhouses.
These could include extended land leases; low-interest credit and support with the facilities.
The department would also ask local administrators to identify thelocation for traditional slaughterhouses to ensure hygiene.
Departmental figures show that Hanoi has 17 traditionalslaughterhouses and more than 3,720 irregular private slaughterhousesthat supply almost 80 percent of the market's demand of meat.
It has only five modern abattoirs.
Their capacity is 1,200 pigs and 14,500 other animals, including fowls, each day.
The city consumes about 600 tonnes of meat daily.
Minh Hien Co Ltd director Nguyen Thi Hien said the abattoir had workedat just 10 percent of its total capacity of 700 animals a day since itopened in 2006.
Although the surrounding Thanh Oaidistrict had thousands of butchers, none hired her company to slaughterfor them as the price was 30 percent higher than at a traditionalabattoir.
The strict hygiene-and-safety regulations also made them hesitate, she said.
The Food Import-Export Joint Stock Company's modern abattoir in DanPhuong district sends most of it produce to supermarkets.
The department will soon put its draft regulations to the Hanoi People's Committee./.
