Philippines sees gain in poultry subsector
Records from the Philippines Department of Agriculture
The subsector's 2009 share in total agricultural output was
14.09%, and gross receipts of the subsector was P100.3B, an
increase of 11.38% over 2008.
San Miguel Foods Inc. projects that the demand for
chicken will grow from 16. 5 million birds in 2007 to reach 24. 1
million birds in 2011, according to the newspaper.
Fire lays waste to Australian chicken facility
Fire has nearly obliterated an Inghams chicken processing
plant southeast of Melbourne, Australia.
According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the
fire began in a storage room in the afternoon. In took more
than 100 firefighters to contain the blaze.
Four hundred workers were evacuated and residents have
been asked to stay indoors to avoid smoke inhalation. The
cause of the fire is not yet known.
Vietnam to develop own poultry breeds
sector, the Vietnamese government will encourage the
breeding of domestic poultry varieties in order to replace
imported ones, according to reports from Hanoi.
Vietnam's Prime Minister, Nguyen Tan Dung, announced
a program to develop domestic plant and livestock
varieties through 2020..
Provisional figures have revealed that Vietnam's poultry
industry performed well in the first nine months of 2009, with the
number of poultry as of October 1, 2009, being 12.83% higher at
280 million than the same period the previous year.
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