An Algorithm for Automatic Zoning based on African Swine Fever (ASF) Control Protocol

Abstract

Pig production is one of the largest livestock activities in agricultural sector. Among all the livestock produce, pork is the most consumed meat in the world aside from beef and chicken. However, swine diseases like African Swine Fever or ASF resulted to high mortality rates and affect the production and the livelihood of the hog raisers. ASF is a non-curable disease of pigs and have been savaging the world's pig population. As this type of disease does not have cure and vaccine, one of the ways to control and stop the spread of the virus is through zoning. Its primary purpose was to segregate the infected locale or city and restrict the trading process to implement the required mitigation control. This work developed an algorithm in Matlab that can be used in the zoning process based on the 1-7-10 protocol set by the government. Spherical geometry distance was calculated from the suspected premise and classify each city based on the defined protocol. Generated output was compared to the zoning data released by the government to determine the accuracy of the algorithm.