The Global Environment Facility (GEF) has approved US$15mn grant to assist continued management of the large marine ecosystem in the Bay of Bengal, aiming to sustain ecosystem services in the region
Livestock
Sun Daily and HatchTech to build super-size layer hatchery in China

The hatchery for layers will have a total capacity to incubate 125mn eggs per year. (Image source: Livestock & Poultry Environmental Learning Centre/Flickr)
China-based Sun Daily Farms and HatchTech Group have announced to build a super-size layer hatchery in the country’s Guizhou Province
Hubbard JA257 added to the list of Dutch approved breeds for broilers
Hubbard, one of the major international broiler breeding companies in the world, has announced that the ‘Hubbard JA257’ has been accredited by the Dutch Animal Welfare Association (Dierenbescherming) for use in their Better Life certification scheme
‘Philippines, China, Vietnam should sign common fishing agreement’
In order to fairly deal with a transparent fishing practice, Philippines, China and Vietnam are considering to signing a common fishing agreement on Scarborough Shoal, located between the Macclesfield Bank and Luzon island in the South China Sea
Alibaba’s AI technology to transform China’s pig farming industry chain

China is one of the leading producers of pig across the Asia-Pacific. (Image source: Andrew Martin/Pixabay)
Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, has launched its proprietary ET Agricultural Brain in Shanghai, which has been adopted by a number of leading pig farmers in China to achieve high amount of pig breeding