Ruminant News from Asia

Israeli-led $500 million dairy farm project in Vietnam

In the largest project of its kind in the world and the biggest ever undertaken by an Israeli firm, 30,000 dairy cows are being flown to Vietnam to supply 300 million liters of milk annually as part of a $500 million dairy farm project there.

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Additional FMD Case Found In South Korea's Largest Port City

South Korea confirmed an additional case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in its largest port city on Monday as quarantine authorities start the second stage of its nationwide vaccination process, Yonhap news agency quoted the government as saying Monday.

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Barisal BSCIC plots serving as cattle grazing ground

Barisal BSCIC (Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation) survives merely in name with only 35 running industrial units though it was to be the biggest industrial city. In 1961 Barisal BSCIC was projected at Kawnia on a large area of 130.61 acres of land consisting of 463 plots to be allotted, whereas, in last 50 years only 252 plots have been leased and the rest 211 plots have been lying empty as the pasture land used by the local inhabitants.

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Morocco and Algeria livestock added to UAE's bluetongue disease risk list

Morocco and Algeria have been added to the list of countries whose livestock are affected by Bluetongue disease. Importing susceptible animals from these countries, therefore, should be under preconditions, said the UAE Ministry of Environment and Water (MoEW).

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PAVA supplies eco-clean Altay grain to Turkey

Siberia's PAVA supplies livestock farms in Turkey with bran produced from ecologically clean Altay grain

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