The hospital will have 50 glass aquariums, 25 circular water tanks, each with a capacity of 500 litres, to admit and treat diseased fish. (Image source: Gölin Doorneweerd/sxc.hu)
India’s first hospital to treat abnormalities and diseases in fish is set to come up in Kolkata by mid-2015
Concerns are also rising about the spread of infectious diseases from animals to humans. (Image source: Wattpublishing/Flickr)
Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide a US$2mn grant to support South Asia’s push to slow the spread of livestock diseases like avian flu and foot and mouth disease
Cambodia needs nearly 200,000 of swine per month. (Image source: Juan Carlos Garavito/sxc.hu)
CP Cambodia, livestock breeding specialist and subsidiary of Thai conglomerate Charoen Pokphand Company Limited, will double its swine production by 2019 to meet the country’s demand for pork products
The European Commission (EC) has recently given the Philippines’ government a ‘yellow card’ rating for being unable to sufficiently manage illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. (Image source: Wibowo Djatmiko/Wikimedia Commons)
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has started its own public private partnership programme toward sustainable tuna (PPTST) in the Philippines to prevent the depletion of the tuna stocks in the Coral Triangle
Indonesia’s domestic business players intend to grab US$200mn of Japan’s overall poultry market of US$2bn each year. (Image source: Asif Akbar/sxc.hu)
Indonesian poultry firm PT Charoen Pokphand Indonesia (CPIN) has announced expansion plans overseas starting with Japan
