A woman sells pork at Can Tho, Vietnam in April 2012. Pork accounts for three-quarters of the total meat consumption in Vietnam, a country of 95 million people, where most of its 30 million farm-raised pigs are consumed domestically. An ongoing outbreak of African swine fever has hit farms in 29 provinces, and prompted the authorities to cull more than 1.2 million pigs.

First published in the May 14, 2019, 7:32 p.m. edition

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