Sally Furniss
Well-known member
HANOI, Feb. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- The Vietnamese government has permitted concentrated farms to hatch and raise chickens as no bird flu outbreaks have been reported in the past two months, Vietnam News Agency reported on Thursday. However, one-day-old chickens in all farms specializing in breeding young fowls for sales to raisers must be vaccinated against bird flu viruses before being sold in the market, said theMinistry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Late last year, the Vietnamese government imposed a temporary ban on raising new poultry flocks to prevent bird flu spread, which made Vietnam short of breeding chicken.
The ministry's Department of Animal Health said on Tuesday that21 cities and provinces nationwide, which were hit by bird flu last October, have detected no new outbreaks for at least three weeks, meeting criteria to declare their territory free of the disease.
The ministry has recently completed a scheme on zoning poultry breeding nationwide between 2006 and 2010 with focus on establishing more large farms and slaughterhouses with an estimated cost of 670 billion Vietnamese dong (VND) (42.1 million U.S. dollars).
By implementing the scheme, Vietnam's fowl raising sector can make production value of around 20 trillion VND (over 1.2 billion dollars) in 2010.
Vietnam had a total poultry population of 254 million by late 2002, and it has annually grown by an average of 6.5 percent. Birdflu outbreaks, starting in the country in late 2003 have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls so far.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/16/content_4189106.htm
Late last year, the Vietnamese government imposed a temporary ban on raising new poultry flocks to prevent bird flu spread, which made Vietnam short of breeding chicken.
The ministry's Department of Animal Health said on Tuesday that21 cities and provinces nationwide, which were hit by bird flu last October, have detected no new outbreaks for at least three weeks, meeting criteria to declare their territory free of the disease.
The ministry has recently completed a scheme on zoning poultry breeding nationwide between 2006 and 2010 with focus on establishing more large farms and slaughterhouses with an estimated cost of 670 billion Vietnamese dong (VND) (42.1 million U.S. dollars).
By implementing the scheme, Vietnam's fowl raising sector can make production value of around 20 trillion VND (over 1.2 billion dollars) in 2010.
Vietnam had a total poultry population of 254 million by late 2002, and it has annually grown by an average of 6.5 percent. Birdflu outbreaks, starting in the country in late 2003 have killed and led to the forced culling of dozens of millions of fowls so far.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/16/content_4189106.htm