Ministry Affirms Move to Intensify Production
VIET NAM - The Ministry of Agriculture is encouraging a move from backyard to intensive livestock and poultry production to increase output.

Imported Meat Price Stuck
VIET NAM – Following the raising the taxes on imported meat, prices still have not changed.

Vietnamese Meat Import Duties to Rise
VIET NAM - The government of Vietnam, is raising the import duties for meat coming into the country. The new rates on pork increased by 25% and the import of beef by 10%, in order to protect local farmers from cheap imports.

Vietnam Discourages Imports
VIET NAM - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has asked the Vietnamese Government not to encourage imports of animal and poultry staples that can be produced at home such as eggs and meat.

Breeders Encumbered by Epidemics and Disasters
VIET NAM - Epidemics, natural disasters and increasing prices of feed have hindered the animal breeding sector’s growth rate this year, which failed to reach the target of 8-10 per cent set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

No Compensation without Vaccination
VIET NAM - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked local authorities to vaccinate all cattle and poultry against regulated diseases.

Feed Companies in Trouble
VIET NAM - Up to 40 feed companies have ceased trading so far this year as they struggle with imports and unfavorable exchange rates.

Culled Animal Households Can Defer Debt Payments
VIET NAM – Any animal breeding households whose poultry and cattle are culled due to the diseases are allowed to defer their payment of debts, declared the Governor of the State Bank in a recent official document.

Domesticated Storks Kill Flies in Vietnam
VIETNAM - Animal farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tien Giang are taking an environmentally-friendly approach to eradicating flies. They are raising storks.

Compensation Due to Vietnamese Livestock Owners
VIET NAM - Raisers of poultry and cattle which have been culled to prevent the spread of such diseases as bird flu, foot-and-mouth and "blue ear," are to receive state compensation equal to 70 percent of the selling price of the culled animals.

Phat Maintains Fight Against FMD
VIETNAM - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat told a World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)’s meeting in Hanoi that the drastic efforts they have implemented to bring Foot and Mouth Disease under control will continue.

Less Duty On Beef Imports Into Vietnam
VIETNAM - The Vietnamese Ministry of Finance, on 3 August, issued temporary cuts on preferential import tax rates (MFN tariffs) for a number of goods listed in Vietnam’s preferential import tariff schedule. The amended tariffs came into effect on 8 August...

Spending billions of dollars to carry coal to Newcastle
VIET NAM - Though an agricultural country, each year Vietnam spends billions of US dollars to import materials to process animal feed. Since early June 2007, animal feed producing companies have been increasing the prices of animal feed by several thousands...

New foot-and-mouth virus stalks cattle in central Vietnam
VIET NAM - A new foot-and-mouth virus type, Asia 1, has infected at least 650 cows, buffaloes, pigs and goats in the central province of Quang Tri.

Vietnam develops plan to streamline breeding farms
VIETNAM - is mapping out a master plan to govern practices on breeding farms, to be completed by 2008, in an effort to upgrade output and product quality, agricultural officials said at a meeting Tuesday.

Cargill building animal feed factory in central Vietnam
VIET NAM - Cargill Inc. of the US is building a US$6 million plant to make animal feed in Vietnam’s central Binh Dinh Province.

VND20mil punishment for using growth-stimulating hormone
VIET NAM - Several companies in Vietnam have been found as adding the prohibited growth-stimulating hormones into foodstuff for cattle.

Breeding programmes ill prepped for WTO entry
VIETNAM - Viet Nam’s breeding industry must overcome high production prices and unstable quality if it is to develop as the country joins the World Trade Organisation, according to industry official Nguyen Dang Vang.