The notice, released by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs on Tuesday , is in response to farmers' complaints that they are facing great losses as roads for transporting feed and products have been blocked.
Also, behaviour such as illegally blocking roads to villages and setting up road barriers are prohibited unless approved by county-level authorities, the notice said. A pig farmer surnamed He told Sanlian Life Weekly that he had been upset because he had been out of feed and his 400-plus pigs had been crying piteously for food.