August 2024

Business Insider

Whether you have one bunny or a few, you’ll want to give your furry friends the best rabbit food for their needs. While quality rabbit food pellets are a convenient and nutritious part of a rabbit’s diet, they shouldn’t be the only food source or even the main dish.

The Malay Mail

A small dairy in Tasmania is stocking supermarket shelves with what it says is the world’s first branded milk produced by cows fed with a seaweed that makes them emit lower levels of environmentally damaging methane gas. The livestock industry accounts for around 30 per cent of global methane emissions, according to the United Nations. Seaweed and other feed additives for cattle could reduce these greenhouse gas emissions but have yet to be widely adopted due to cost.

BusinessWorld

Poultry raisers said that chicken prices may drop by late August after they hit a “record” P250 per kilogram in Metro Manila markets. “The increased chicken prices are only temporary because raising chickens is fast… (it is possible) there will be a continuous drop in late August,” United Broiler Raisers Association President Jose Feliciano told reporters this week.

Undercurrent News

The Vietnamese shrimp processor warned that the strength of the Vietnamese shrimp industry is “gradually decreasing”, though 2024 has so far been an improvement on last year…

BusinessWorld

Hog Farmers are urging the government to implement tighter biosecurity measures to help curb the spread of the African Swine Fever (ASF) in the Philippines as they wait for the government’s approval for the commercial use of a vaccine. “For now, we push for the strictest biosecurity, based on their capacities, of all our hog raisers,” Alfred Ng, vice-chairman of the National Federation of Hog Farmers, Inc. said in a Viber message.

Bangkok Post

African swine fever outbreaks are spreading in Vietnam and could affect its food supplies and put upward pressure on inflation, according to a government document.

Bangkok Post

Certain types of grasshoppers, moths and crickets could be appearing on Singapore’s supermarket shelves and restaurant tables after the government approved the import of insects and insect products for human consumption and animal feed.

Undercurrent News

Prices paid by packers in Vietnam have been easing throughout June but look to have reached a bottom as we enter July…

GMA News Online / News

Agriculture Secretary Francisco Tiu Laurel Jr. on Tuesday announced that the Department of Agriculture (DA) is set to begin the government”s trial of African Swine Fever (ASF) vaccine in the third quarter of 2024 with an initial 150,000 vials of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved AVAC ASF Live from Vietnam.

Interaksyon.com

The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization on Thursday called for an urgent and unified response to an “alarming” rise in avian influenza in humans and animals across the Asia-Pacific. The H5N1 virus has spread more widely than ever before, reaching as far as South America and Antarctica and infecting new species of wild […] The post UN agency seeks urgent response to ‘alarming’ spread in Asia-Pacific bird flu appeared first on Interaksyon.

BusinessWorld

The Meat Importers and Traders Association (MITA) said the price of imported meat could rise due to high international prices and a weak peso. “We are already seeing the stocks of some major players thinning out,” MITA President Emeritus Jesus C. Cham said via Viber. The peso closed at P58.295 against the dollar on Wednesday, according to the Bankers Association of the Philippines. Mr. Cham added that the recent signing of Executive Order (EO) No.