MARKET
Beset by spiralling feed prices, unbridled meat imports, resurgent disease outbreaks, the Philippine pork industry is in bad shape again. Can it pull through unscathed this time?
Five years after the 2003 avian flu epidemic, when 11.3 million of its poultry population died from the disease and the massive culling that went with it, things had been looking up for the Indonesian poultry industry.
SUPPLY CHAIN
How Thailand's broiler exporters turn crises into opportunities.
INDUSTRY
Cobb-Vantress and Hendrix Genetics form alliance; CPF expects 2008 sales up 15 percent; Bayer to market Taiwan-developed swine vaccine; Tyson enters joint venture in India, to invest in China's poultry and Suguna expands into processed poultry,mutton and fish.
Gainco launches scales tailor-made for meat processing plants, Nanogen to develop molecular diagnostic test for bird flu.
Tyson names new CFO, Intervet/Schering-Plough Animal Health appoints heads of global species teams, Pfizer Animal Genetics names new head of Product Development and Phibro Animal Health names new president.
LIVESTOCK HEALTH
Respiratory disease is a major cause of economic loss to the pig industry worldwide. Among the many infectious causes of porcine respiratory disease is the Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (M. hyo).
MEAT OPERATION
High Pressure Processing of food (HPP) is an emerging and well-accepted technique in the production of many high value-added products worldwide.
COLD CUTS
MEAT & LIVESTOCK Business Asia talked to eFeedLink's chief market analyst Shi Tao on the impact of the recent Japanese ban on China's broiler after traces of the banned carcinogenic antibiotic AOZ were detected.
