May 3, 2023

FAO works with Laos to boost cattle exports to China

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is partnering with Laos' Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to facilitate safer cattle trade between the country and China, with the key objective of increasing cattle exports to China.

Through the FAO-China South-South Cooperation Project on Transboundary Animal Disease Control in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, the FAO's Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases has provided the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry with disinfectant, disinfectant sprayers and vaccines for foot-and-mouth disease and goat pox for cattle, Lao News Agency reported on April 26.

Technical experts provided technical know-how and training courses on animal quarantine management to Lao animal quarantine and health officers, farmers, livestock traders and village veterinary workers in the Sing district of Luang Namtha province, a border area between Laos and China.

At least 40,000 cattle will be protected against livestock diseases through the vaccination campaigns in all five districts of Luang Namtha province, according to the FAO.

- Xinhua