October 2019

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Dietary valine supplementation can decrease the negative effect of feeding low crude protein (CP) diets to broiler chickens, but during the starter and growing periods only, said an Iranian team of animal scientists.

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French mealworm derived feed protein producer, Ynsect, has been selected as one of France’s 40 most promising startups ‘ the NEXT40 index, a list of companies deemed to have the strongest prospects for global growth.

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Trial findings support the use of krill meal as an effective growth enhancer in fishmeal-challenged diets for whiteleg shrimp, says krill meal producer, Aker BioMarine.

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The US Department of Agriculture is providing $1.7m in funding to support Swine Health Information Center efforts to research and help address the outbreak and spread of African Swine Fever in Vietnam.

Channel NewsAsia

Thailand has designated 24 provinces as “surveillance areas” for African swine fever and ordered strict animal controls in hopes of preventing an outbreak of the deadly disease that has hit its neighbors, an agriculture official said on Friday.

The Straits Times

To feed Singapore at a time when global warming and overfishing are decimating global fish stocks, the authorities are looking to seafood farmed Singapore-style for a reliable protein source: high-tech, high-yield and climate-proof.

Consult Myanmar

Poultry farms in Mandalay Region are suffering losses because of high chick prices and can’t make enough money to offset production costs, according to U Kyaw Htin, chair of the Mandalay Livestock Federation.

Channel NewsAsia

Indonesia is set to get cracking on a plan to destroy millions of eggs in a bid to prop up slumping chicken prices, calling on poultry breeders to cut supply by either destroying them or giving them away. “The only way we can do something about it is by discarding 10 million … eggs,”