The training course aimed to accelerate safer cattle trade between the two countries and improve cattle export to China. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD), kicked off a two-week training course on animal quarantine management in Sing District, a border area between Lao People’s Democratic Republic and China
The project will construct aquaculture feed mills in strategic locations in the country. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has appointed the expertise of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Centre - Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC/AQD) to develop a PHP30 million commercial-scale aquaculture feed mill in Western Visayas for cost-effective feed
Pigs bred for meat in Taiwan will no longer need to be vaccinated against swine flu. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
The chairman of Taiwan’s Council of Agriculture (COA), Minister Chen Chi-chung, announced that Taiwan is on track to be declared a swine flu-free nation by 2024, and to become the first Asian nation to eradicate swine flu
Despite the bird flu outbreak overseas, Malaysia’s chicken supply for its domestic market remains stable
Affected birds of the virus had to be culled. (Image source: Adobe Stock)
A number of outbreaks of the HPAI virus has been detected in parts of Asia, leading to the culling of several afflicted birds
