The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) handed
over a poultry trading section designed to limit disease transmission to
management board of Dong Ha Market in the central province of
Quang Tri on Dec. 5.
The trading area, which is built
at a cost of 1.1 billion VND including 900 million VND from USAID, is
divided into counters for live chickens and processed meat.
The establishment of the area is expected to reduce the risk of
spreading avian flu and other infectious diseases to both traders and
consumers, increase the management ability in detecting and controlling
the epidemic, helping improve food safety.
The area is a
part of the USAID’s Avian and Pandemic Influenza Initiative being
carried out from November 2009 to December 2012 in five provinces of
Vietnam including Can Tho, Ha Nam , Hung Yen, Kien Giang and Quang
Tri./.