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The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang will provide vocational training for more than 10,800 labourers living in rural areas in the 2019-2020 period.

Authorities in southern provinces and cities are taking necessary measures to prevent diseases in poultry and transmission to humans.

The central province of Phu Yen recorded no new outbreak of A/H5N6 influenza in the locality over the past three weeks, said Nguyen Van Lam, vice head of the provincial sub-department of animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, on November 21.

An outbreak of A/H5N6 influenza, also known as bird flu, which is transmittable to humans, has been detected in the central province of Phu Yen, said a local official.

Measures are sought to increase the value of bilateral trade between Laos and Thailand at a trade meeting that opened in Vientiane, Laos, on September 4.

Vietnam will produce more than 23 million tonnes of animal and poultry feed this year, according to a report by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

The Indonesian agriculture ministry has halted shipments of poultry and poultry-related products from Malaysia after a case of bird flu was reported in the neighbouring nation.

The northern province of Bac Giang will create favourable conditions for Australian firms who want to land investments in local agriculture.

Experts said Japanese consumers’ demand for Vietnamese processed chicken will open up more opportunities for Vietnam’s animal husbandry sector.

Japanese consumers’ demand for Vietnamese processed chicken will open up more opportunities for Vietnam’s animal husbandry sector, according to experts.

More and more businesses are exporting livestock and poultry meat, opening up great prospects for the livestock sector.

Construction work started on the country’s most modern poultry processing plant in the north central province of Thanh Hoa on July 6.

The European agriculture producers are expecting the EVFTA to take effect soon as it will pave the way for their agricultural products to enter the Southeast Asian market.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has urged Ho Chi Minh City to boost the application of high technology in tracing the origins of food products as a way to gradually change the habits of production and consumption to improve awareness of food safety.

Brazilian authorities said on April 17 that the country will soon resume meat exports to Indonesia following the Southeast Asian nation's import restrictions for years over food security concerns.

Russia’s Kaluga Oblast is willing to give incentives and help Vietnamese enterprises invest in the region, a local official has said.

The Department of Animal Health under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has warned of a high risk of the return of avian influenza in Vietnam after the epidemic was put under control for a long period of time.

The sub-department of animal husbandry and veterinary in northern Hai Phong city has culled 3,000 chickens infected with the avian flu virus A/H5N6.

The bird flu virus was detected in Koh Svay village in Kampong Cham province of Cambodia, recently announced the Cambodian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.

The Philippines was hit by a bird flu outbreak in November, according to Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol.