MLBA Issue 13: February / March 2010
MARKET FOCUS
Decades of incremental investments on the part of integrators themselves, not AFTA, are making cross-border supply chains possible.
To read part of the story, click on the title.
| MARKET |
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Zooming into China's Halal industry and its vast potential |
In the past, slaughter firms in China paid minimal attention to Halal food products. However, as the Halal domestic and
international markets become more competitive in recent years, there is now greater urgency for Chinese companies
to explore these prospects.
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Will Thailand's dairy industry survive under AFTA? |
As a food exporter, Thailand is known for its neat food safety record. What the world doesn't know is that as recently
as last year it had its own melamine-like scandal.
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Philippine livestock: Braving the climate change |
In 2009, the nation faced the worst onslaught of storms. Considered as the country's lifeblood, the Philippine agriculture
industry will bore a devastating brunt if measures are not quickly implemented as weather eccentricities continue.
| SUPPLY CHAIN |
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Previously focused on providing premium quality chicken to Saudi Arabia, Radwa Food Production Company now
expands to broader markets, ushered by its vision to become the biggest and most successful food company in the
Middle East.
| INDUSTRY |
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TUF is on track to meet its export targets; CP to develop poultry project in southern Vietnam; Cobb secures new
agreement in Kazakhstan; Betagro to expand chicken production; JBS seeks to widen meat processing, distribution
network.
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New Products |
Brazil's Ceitec SA launches RFID chip for livestock; New flavour modifier extends meat shelf life.
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Movers |
Hubbard appoints new Latin American Sales and Technical Manager; Nutreco appoints new manager director for
Hendrix.
| LIVESTOCK HEALTH |
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Complicated Chronic Respiratory Disease: A major threat to commercial poultry |
Today's birds have the potential to grow rapidly due to intensive genetic selection; so they are more susceptible to
stressors of the respiratory and circulatory systems. We look closer to these respiratory diseases which are the major
group of diseases affecting the birds.
| MEAT OPERATIONS |
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Consumers take into consideration some other characteristics of pork for its quality, such as tenderness, besides the
leanness and quality of the muscle. We look at how tenderness is measured in this study.
| COLD CUTS |
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MEAT & LIVESTOCK Business Asia talked to Dr Farshad Shishehchian, founder of the Asian Aquaculture Network, on
how his main observations on Asia's aquaculture trade and overall outlook for it.
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