With over 14,000 pigs culled and the animal husbandry department remarking on incidences of African swine fever “alarmingly rising across the state with no bound” since the start of this year, the Assam government on Sunday banned the inter-district movement of live pigs in the state and the sale of pork in seven districts.

African swine fever (ASF) in Assam was first detected in 2020. An order issued on Sunday by the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department of Assam said that since then, it has “devastated the piggery industry in the state”.

The department said that 297 epicentres of the disease have been reported this year, with 84 new epicentres being notified in the month of October itself.

“The incidences of the ASF have been alarmingly rising across the state with no bound since

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