Livestock

The conference addressed the challenges posed by moving to an AGP free diet. (Image credit: Alexandra/ Pixabay)

Multinational feed additives producer Nutriad presented new gut health research at the recent Global Feed Summit in Bangkok, Thailand

Livestock play an important role in Asia to improve livelihoods of the farmers. (Image source: hceebee/Flickr)

FAO has organised a quadrilateral meeting on the control of transboundary animal diseases (TADs) in Tehran from 28-29 November 2017, where the governments of Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and Tajikistan will discuss areas of mutual concern and improved collaboration to prevent those diseases

The SafePORK project brings together expertise in smallholder pig systems. Image source: chx69/Pixabay)

Researchers working with the ‘Market-based approaches to improving the safety of pork in Vietnam’ or SafePORK project attended a North-West Symposium hosted by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) in Hanoi

A villager using the traditional fish-smoking method in her village in Sri Lanka. (Image source: FAO)

FAO has launched new smoking ovens for the fishing community in eastern Sri Lanka, aiming to make fish value chain more productive and profitable for the poorest families in the region