Indonesia: FAO ECTAD Marks the Closure of Avian Influenza Prevention and Control Project in Indonesia

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25 September 2015 - After almost nine years of close cooperation and collaboration with the Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health Services, Ministry of Agriculture of Indonesia, on Tuesday, 22 September 2015, the FAO ECTAD Programme in Indonesia held a workshop in Jakarta to mark the closure of theAvian Influenza Prevention and Control Project. Initiated in 2006, with funds from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), FAO ECTAD through a series of three different projects has provided technical support to enhance the capacity of the Government of Indonesia and partners to implement a sustainable Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) control programme in the backyard poultry sector, the commercial poultry industry as well as along the poultry market chain. Strengthening veterinary services has been the main focus, and by 2015, the projects had trained up to 2,756 animal health officers in 32 provinces in participatory disease surveillance and response (PDSR), while another 143 veterinarians in 12 provinces and 50 districts have improved their skills in prevention and control of poultry diseases on commercial farms. More than 3,000 commercial farmers have also received information on improved farm biosecurity, HPAI vaccination protocols and better poultry farm management

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