Pig trotters hang from hooks at a meat market in Hong Kong, where the price of pork has soared since the outbreak of African swine fever
Checkpoints, sniffer dogs and strict import bans have been deployed in a desperate bid to control its spread. Live pig prices are up by around 40 percent year-on-year in China, and pork imports from Europe, Canada and Brazil into the country are climbing. She estimates that 200 million pigs could be culled in China — more than half the swine population in the country, which supplies around 50 percent of the world’s pork.Scratching an income
Along with China, Vietnam has been the worst hit by swine fever, but the country exports very little of its pork. All three countries have bumped up fines for smuggling in pork products — up to $8,400 in South Korea — and Japan has deployed sniffer dogs and quarantine stations at major airports.