The capital's Industry and Trade Department is drafting regulations that will close traditional inner-city slaughterhouses that fail to meet hygiene 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 the prospective regulation was intended to eliminate unhygienic abattoirs and provide Hanoi with safe, clean meat.
"Many people have complained about the traditional slaughterhouses because they lack quarantine seals and usually discharge untreated waste into their surrounds," the director said.
"Many in scattered corners of the city operate irregularly; they have the capacity to slaughter only 2-3 pigs and about 20 fowls each day and this makes 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 the location for traditional slaughterhouses to ensure hygiene.
Departmental figures show that Hanoi has 17 traditional slaughterhouses and more than 3,720 irregular private slaughterhouses that 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 worked at just 10 percent of its total capacity of 700 animals a day since it opened in 2006.
Although the surrounding Thanh Oai district had thousands of butchers, none hired her company to slaughter for them as the price was 30 percent higher than at a traditional abattoir.
The strict hygiene-and-safety regulations also made them hesitate, she said.
The Food Import-Export Joint Stock Company's modern abattoir in Dan Phuong 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 the prospective regulation was intended to eliminate unhygienic abattoirs and provide Hanoi with safe, clean meat.
"Many people have complained about the traditional slaughterhouses because they lack quarantine seals and usually discharge untreated waste into their surrounds," the director said.
"Many in scattered corners of the city operate irregularly; they have the capacity to slaughter only 2-3 pigs and about 20 fowls each day and this makes 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 the location for traditional slaughterhouses to ensure hygiene.
Departmental figures show that Hanoi has 17 traditional slaughterhouses and more than 3,720 irregular private slaughterhouses that 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 worked at just 10 percent of its total capacity of 700 animals a day since it opened in 2006.
Although the surrounding Thanh Oai district had thousands of butchers, none hired her company to slaughter for them as the price was 30 percent higher than at a traditional abattoir.
The strict hygiene-and-safety regulations also made them hesitate, she said.
The Food Import-Export Joint Stock Company's modern abattoir in Dan Phuong district sends most of it produce to supermarkets.
The department will soon put its draft regulations to the Hanoi People's Committee./.
