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Contents

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Bulletin 4

A round-up of key developments in the regional market

ISSUE FOUR 2013

Oil palm Innovative production techniques

Agenda 5

China may become top wheat importer globally; Fish farming sees a technological breakthrough; Natural feed for fishes, livestock; Vietnam ups Australian cattle import

Event 9

Previews of Livestock Asia 2013, Ildex Myanmar and Indonesia; Reviews of Livestock Philippines, International Congress of Plant Pathology

Preview of Livestock Asia GM diet and pig health Philippines coconut industry Poultry housing – p13

Livestock

Climate data for crop yield prediction

Annual Buyers’ Guide

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Poultry housing in the tropics

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GM diet may harm pig health, says study

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Crops 19

New dimensions to oil palm production

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Coconut industry holds promises despite challenges

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Climate data to help predict crop yield

Equipment 26

The latest innovation in agricultural technology

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Mapping system to visualise the world of roots

Transgenic bananas to vaccinate pigs against PRRS

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Advertisers Index AWILA Anlagenbau GmbH ..........................................5

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG ..................36

Brinsea Products Ltd ................................................13

Olmix ........................................................................15

CNH International SA ..................................................2

Omex Agrifluids Ltd...................................................29

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.a. ....................................34

Swingtec GmbH ........................................................35

Goizper Sociedad Cooperativa ..................................21

Unipoint AG................................................................34

Impex Barneveld b.v..................................................31

United Business Media (M) Sdn Bhd (Livestock Asia, 2013) ................................................9

Institut de Sélection Animale B.V ..............................17

Japan developes drought-resistant rice

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Bulletin Vietnam prepares to address growing milk demand VIETNAMESE DAIRY PROCESSOR Vinamilk has unveiled expansion plans to increase domestic industry presence in a bid to keep up with rising demand and imports.

A new dairy foods plant will address self-sufficiency issues and the current dependence on buying overseas products from countries such as Chile.

Last year, dairy imports to Vietnam increased 12.8 per cent.

Consumption levels were at 15 litres per head for 2012, up from three in the mid-1990’s, according to the Central Statistics Office.

Completion is expected by September 2013 after a two stage building process.

Stage one promises a 1.2mn litres a day plant and stage two will see capacity doubling to 2.4mn litres daily.

in which Claas has been represented for many years. By acquiring the majority share in Jinyee, we are creating local production capacity for machines aimed at the Chinese market.

“We have production plants in the western and central European markets, as well as in the USA, Russia and India. Purchasing a production plant in China is another step towards Asia, a step that fits in with our long-term focus in this area.”

Claas said that it wanted to use this acquisition to take advantage of the enormous potential for growth that it provides.

Jinyee produces various harvesting machines, mainly for the maize and wheat harvest, at two main sites in Gaomi and Daqing. Each of the sites lies right in the heart of a main agricultural region – one in central China and the other in northeastern China.

Jinyee's headquarters are in the city of Gaomi, which is located between Beijing and Shanghai in the province of Shandong.

Cargill acquires shrimp feed manufacturer

Construction of the new dairy farm will be completed by September 2013

CARGILL’S ANIMAL NUTRITION business has acquired shrimp feed manufacturer Siamakme Aquatic Feeds in Thailand.

Cargill Feed & Nutrition, Thailand, managing director Watcharapong Poomongkutchai said, “Thailand is a major producer of fish and shrimp with strong growth potential, and we are delighted about this strategic acquisition because it strengthens our presence in Asia.”

Siamakme managing director Jeanny Hung said, “Siamakme’s ambition has always been to manufacture the best shrimp feeds in Thailand. We feel that under Cargill’s ownership the business will be able to continue this legacy and tap into Cargill’s global expertise to provide Thai shrimp producers with innovative solutions and high-quality products.”

Ceva joint venture with Sichuan Hengtong FRENCH VETERINARY GROUP Ceva and China-based Sichuan Hengtong Animal Pharmacy have signed an international partnership agreement that will result in the setting up of Ceva Hengtong. This new Franco-Chinese venture will offer a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical products and services to improve the production of swine and poultry in China.

More than a quarter of all the meat produced worldwide is now eaten in China. With the country’s demographic growth and improvement of living standards, this consumption will continue to grow, particularly that of pork and chicken. Chinese livestock production will therefore continue to rise, bringing strong demand for veterinary pharmaceuticals.

Ceva Hengtong will focus on the poultry and swine segments, providing these businesses with the services they need in order to improve efficiency.

Ceva Santé Animale will own 55 per cent of the shares in Ceva Hengtong while Sichuan Hengtong Animal Pharmacy will have 45 per cent. Liang Guo, current CEO and the largest shareholder of Sichuan Hengtong Animal Pharmacy, will be appointed managing director of the joint venture. The new company will continue to be based in Neijiang but relocate to a purpose-built facility in Sichuan meeting all international quality standards by 2015.

Claas acquires Shandong Jinyee GERMAN AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING company Claas has acquired Chinese agricultural machinery manufacturer Shandong Jinyee Machinery Manufacture.The transaction was worked out in July and signed by the Chinese shareholder and Claas.

Claas spokesperson Theo Freye said, “China is the largest and fastest-growing market for agricultural engineering in Asia, a market

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Thailand is a major producer of fish and shrimp

Cobb to set up parent stock producing farm in China COBB HAS SIGNED a joint venture agreement with integrated chicken producer Hubei Tong Xing Agriculture for setting up of a farm and hatchery facility for the production and sale of parent stock.

As part of the agreement signed by Cobb-Vantress president Jerry Moye and Tong Xing chairman Yang Shenghong, a total of US$35mn will be invested in establishing the farm in the city of Suizhou in Hubei province, west of Shanghai.

The farm will start producing the parent stock early in 2015. The joint venture company, officially known as Hubei Tong Xing Cobb Breeding Company, will be 85 per cent owned by Cobb and 15 per cent by Tong Xing with an initial production target of five million parents a year.

Jerry Moye said, “Tong Xing has been one of our customers for the past four years and we’re excited at this opportunity to work closer together in this joint venture. They are located in an area of China with a low chicken population, yet it’s very accessible with good transport links.”

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Events 2013 SEPTEMBER 23-25

Asian Pig Veterinary Society Congress

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

24-26

Livestock Asia Expo & Forum 2013

Malaysia

25-28

Kistock (Korea International Livestock Expo)

Daegu, Korea

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Palmex Indonesia 2013

Medan, Indonesia

www.palmoilexpo.com

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Ildex Indonesia 2013

Jakarta, Indonesia

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13-15

Leman China Swine Conference

Xi'an, China

www.cvm.umn.edu

13-15

China International Meat Industry Exhibition

Qingdao, China

www.meat-ims.org

24-26

Livestock Myanmar 2013 Expo & Forum

Yangon, Myanmar

06 - 08

Fifth World Waterfowl Conference

Hanoi, Viet Nam

11-14

International Conference on Green Agro-industry (ICGAI) Yogyakarta, Indonesia

19-21

PIPOC 2013

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

23-24

Fourth International Conference on Agriculture and Animal Science

Phuket, Thailand

AgriLivestock 2013

Yangon, Myanmar

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China may become top wheat importer globally CHINA IS EXPECTED to become the biggest wheat importer in the world with the country increasing its wheat imports from US and Australia to a substantial extent after its domestic wheat harvest was damaged by rains and frost in May 2013.

China has recently rushed into the Australian wheat market, buying close to 1.5mn tonnes of the grain in the last four months The splurge has sparked hopes among Australian grain traders that China may buy a record three to four million tonnes of new-season wheat from Australia this year to boost its own dwindling supplies.

Earlier in the year, China made the largest wheat purchase from the US in July buying 360,000 tonnes of US soft red winter wheat for shipment in the 2013/14 marketing year. Grain purchases of this scale may see China overtake Egypt as the single largest buyer of wheat globally.

About 16 per cent of the country’s wheat harvests were damaged by frost and rain earlier in 2013.

The US Department of Agriculture, had raised its forecast for China's total grain imports from 3.2mn tonnes last year to 8.5mn tonnes in 2013-2014, as the Asian nation turned to imports to fill the looming shortfall between production and demand.

Traders and analysts have now estimated China’s total wheat imports this year to rise above 10mn tonnes.

The soaring Chinese wheat purchases will also be expected to lift global About 16 per cent of China's prices of the grain by about 10 per cent wheat harvests were damaged by frost and rain earlier in 2013 in the next few months.

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Food Outlook THE FAO FOOD price index averaged 205.9 points in July 2013, four points (nearly two per cent) below its revised value for June and seven points (or 3.3 per cent) lower than in July 2012. The decline in July, which marked the third consecutive monthly drop, was largely driven by lower international prices for grains, soy and palm oil while sugar, meat and dairy quotations were also down from the previous month.

The FAO cereal price Index averaged 227.7 points in July, down 8.8 points (3.7 per cent) from June and as much as 33 points (or nearly 13 per cent) below July last year. The sharp decline mostly reflected falling maize prices as favourable weather boosted hopes of a significant production increase in several leading maize producing countries. Wheat prices also fell but the strong pace of exports limited the decline. Rice price changes varied according to origins, with a decrease in Thai prices contrasting with higher Vietnamese quotations.

The FAO oils/fats price Index averaged 191 points in July, down by seven points (or 3.3

per cent) from June and the lowest level in three years. The slide in the index mainly reflects easing quotations for both soy and palm oil. Soy oil values have fallen in response to ample export availabilities, especially in Argentina, combined with weak demand (including from the biodiesel sector), as well as good soybean crop prospects in the United States. The palm oil price weakness mainly resulted from the combination of ample production and lower than expected import demand, most notably by China. Prices for rape and sunflowerseed oil also fell, reflecting improved 2013/14 crop prospects.

The FAO dairy price index averaged 236.3 points in July, a fall of 2.6 points (1.1 per cent). While prices fell overall, the decline was by a smaller margin than in the previous two months as a result of tightening availabilities in Oceania and stagnating milk production amongst other exporters, principally in Europe, South America and the United States. Milk powder prices were underpinned by limited supplies but the increase was more

Sweet sorghum may become Philippines livestock feed alternative PHILIPPINES MAY SOON be able to help livestock farmers lower their production costs by introducing sweet sorghum as a cheaper feed alternative.

The country’s state-run Pampanga Agricultural College (PAC) is collaborating with the private sector in the pilot use of sweet sorghum to potentially lower feed cost and raise the net income of farmers.

The development of sweet sorghum grains as complementary to corn grains as feed raw material may Sweet sorghum as feed raw help raise the Philippines’ poultry and material may help raise the livestock sector’s competitiveness Philippines’ livestock sector’s competitiveness through cost through cost reduction. reduction The Philippines still significantly imports corn feed and feed wheat, at one million metric tonnes as projected for 2013 by the Philippine Association of Feed Millers.

The government is conducting research and development on feeds with its important role in making the local poultry and livestock industry competitive, according to Bureau of Agricultural Research director Nicomedes P Eleazar.

Eleazar said, “We need to do more R&D on feeds since feeds account for a significant amount of our animal growing cost.

“Any competitiveness in cost will have an important impact in raising the standard of living, especially of our small farmers.”

Cost of feeds may account for a significant 50 per cent of the cost of raising poultry and livestock.

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than offset by a fall in cheese prices due to reduced import demand.

The FAO meat price index averaged 173.3 points in July, more or less unchanged from the revised June level. Prices for poultry and pig meat were lower, while those of bovine and ovine meat rose. Overall, there are signs that international prices for meat are weakening in the face of reduced import demand – especially from Asian countries – reflecting production growth and, in some cases, a build-up of domestically produced meat inventories.

Indian corn exports may fall INDIA'S CORN EXPORTS may plummet by around 40 per cent in the next marketing year, with buyers turning to cheaper supplies from South America after a rain-damaged crop pushed up Indian prices and shook confidence in the grain.

India's winter-planted corn was hit by untimely rains during harvest across its eastern crop belt in May, prompting key buyers in Southeast Asia to shift to imports from Argentina and Brazil, which have been aggressively marketing bumper crops.

The setback to Indian shipments comes as global corn stockpiles are set to rebound in 2013/14 after three years of tight supplies.

A Singapore-based trader who sells feed grain in Asia said, “Indian corn is overpriced and consumers for the time being have lost confidence in it because of quality issues. India is not in a position to sell its corn anywhere.”

Corn exports from Asia's top supplier may drop to less than three million tonnes in the year to October, 2014 from 4.8mn tonnes in 2012/13, traders said. That is a far steeper decline than the 27 per cent fall in the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) latest estimate.

Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam have already covered most of their demand for the grain until December with cargoes from Argentina and Brazil paying between US$260 and US$280 a tonne, including cost and freight, for Argentine corn compared with Indian cargoes quoted at US$310-$315 a tonne.

India's winter-planted corn Feed millers usually take Indian corn was hit by untimely rains only when it has US$10-US$15 discount during harvest across the country’s eastern crop belt to rival South American cargoes.

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Fish farming sees a technological breakthrough HAWAII OCEANIC TECHNOLOGY has unveiled its futuristic fishing tank that has already met with an approval in the US, Philippines and Canada. The firm, however, wants to widen its reach to other parts of the globe and show how open ocean seafood farming can be sustainable.

Hawaii claimed that its Oceansphere, a patented technology of the company, is an advanced and environmental way of seafood farming that has yet to be deployed. Honolulubased aquaculture company Hawaii Oceanic Technology recently received a Canadian patent for its open ocean farming system and the company is hoping to receive more from the European Union, Japan and Australia.

Oceansphere fishing system is an automated positioning and submersible open ocean platform that can grow yellow fin tuna and other pelagic species in an efficient and sustainable manner.

Currently, farmed fish provides half of all seafood consumed in the world. However, according to the United Nations Food Agriculture Organisation (FAO), by 2030 an

Oceansphere is an automated positioning and submersible open ocean platform that can grow yellow fin tuna and other pelagic species

additional 62mn metric tonnes of seafood needs will be required to be produced annually to meet the growing demand without depleting wild ocean stocks.

For Hawaii Oceanic Technology, the solution lay in Oceansphere.

The firm’s chief executive officer Bill Spencer said, “The Oceansphere is designed to be environmentally responsible and economically sustainable.”

It utilises proven off-the-shelf technologies that are well-suited for large-scale deep ocean fish farming, which can satisfy future demands.

“The idea is to move fish farming off-land, away from industrialised near shore waters, bays and

Vietnam’s tuna exports to Portugal sees a surge VIETNAMESE EXPORTS of tuna to Portugal rose by 419 per cent in the first five months of this year, reaching more than US$4mn, This has made Portugal one of Vietnam’s ten largest tuna importers while Vietnam has become the second largest tuna exporter to Portugal after Spain, according to the Viet Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP).

In the period, Portugal imported more than US$2.5mn worth of tuna fillet from Vietnam, up over 941 per cent over the same period last year and 1.4 times higher than the 2012 figure.

Vietnam also recorded a strong surge in exports of fresh and frozen tuna products to Portugal in the period, bringing in more than US$924,000, up 67 per cent year-on-year.

Vietnam is currently fourth among exporters of processed tuna products to Portugal with an export value of almost US$809,000.

It is forecast that the exports of Vietnam’s steamed tuna fillet to Portugal will continue to increase in the coming time.

Vietnam has recorded a strong surge in exports of fresh and frozen tuna products to Portugal

estuaries, out into the deep ocean, where it is a desert-like environment,” said Spencer.

The farming system will be isolated and submerged and not be affected by surface activities like high winds or typhoons.

The Oceansphere is what the FAO deems as an aquaculture type of high technology closed system. It is a spherical cage with an exoskeleton made of neutrally buoyant materials with netting that is stronger than Kevlar. There is an automated buoy on the topside and this can hold 100 tonnes of fish feed that will automatically dispense to the fish contained inside the Oceansphere.

Spencer explained that employing this system, though not tethered to the ocean floor, enables natural processes to occur. This is better for the fish and it results in low food conversion rations, better health and faster growth.

However, the company founded in 2006 has yet to deploy an Oceansphere. Spencer detailed that they have been obtaining permits for the past seven years.

So far, the company has patents in the United States and the Philippines, aside from Canada.

Natural feed for fishes, livestock AQUA AND LIVESTOCK feed ingredients have taken an eco-friendly turn with marine and natural elements becoming the main source of the ingredients.

Ireland-based firm Ocean Harvest Technology (OHT) has developed a cost-effective feed ingredient based on marine and natural products for salmon, shrimp and pigs.

OceanFeed-Salmon and OceanFeed-Shrimp are among the first completely natural and sustainable, marine-based formulas that have been developed without the use of chemicals and synthetic ingredients found in aquaculture feed.

The feed formula The seaweed formula-based shrimp feed guarantees a healthy, has demonstrated significant effect against economical growth in white spot viral disease animal and aquatic feed, allowing food producers to achieve significantly improved yields as well as taste, flavour and texture, whilst complying with organic standards and ever-stricter regulatory restrictions. For the global shrimp farming industry, the seaweed formula-based shrimp feed has demonstrated significant effect against white spot viral disease. White spot is a viral disease that kills 80100 per cent of the shrimp harvest and causes damage to shrimp cultivation industry in Asia at a large scale.

Ocean Harvest Technology in June 2013 opened a production and distribution centre in Vietnam to service increasing global demand for OceanFeed formulas from the aquatic and animal feed industries.

With production facilities in Ireland, Canada and Vietnam and offices in North America, Asia and Australia, OHT has built a very strong global focus.

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Vietnam ups Australian cattle import VIETNAM HAS RECORDED the highest live cattle import from Australia in 2013. The Australian Live Export Council has estimated that close to 20,000 head of cattle have been exported to the Southeast Asian country so far this year.

Darwin port manager for South East Asia Livestock Services Sid Parker said that Vietnam has proved to be a crucial market for Australia because it imports heavier cattle, almost weighing up to 400kg to 500kg.

Parker said, “Vietnam imports quite a number of bulls and cows and the heavier steers. There will be a lot of heavy cattle left in the Australian markets if Vietnam had not opened up a bit.”

The Australian Livestock Exporters Council said that Queensland cattle producers have been on the front foot with the trade.

Australian Livestock Exporters’ Council CEO Alison Penfold said that Queensland's contribution to Australia's overall cattle exports has increased over the past year.

Last year, 2.8 per cent of all cattle exported out of Australia came from Queensland. This March, 9.4 per cent of all cattle exported also came from Vietnam has proved to be a crucial market for Queensland.

Australia because it imports heavier cattle

South Korea increases livestock health inspections THE SOUTH KOREAN Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs has increased livestock health inspections to prevent the recurrence of foot-and-mouth disease and Avian Influenza.

The ministry is concerned that outbreaks of such diseases could result from a lack of epidemic prevention activities at livestock farmhouses during the summer period and the ending of the special animal health control period in June which was needed before the country attained foot-and-mouth disease-free nation status from the Office International des Epizooties (OIE) in 2014.

The ministry said that since foot-and-mouth disease and Avian Influenza have not recurred over the past two years, livestock farmhouses have tended to pay less attention towards animal health controls.

To resolve this, intensive inspections will be implemented as a measure to promote attention to animal health control and encourage epidemic prevention activities at livestock farmhouses, the ministry said.

In addition, livestock industry vehicle registration is just 63 per cent, despite the implementation on 1 January 2013 of the regulation designed to help prevent the spread of animal disease.

Central and local government inspections will be implemented separately after vulnerable livestock farmhouses have been selected for intensive inspection and epidemic prevention, including foot-andmouth disease vaccinations. Joint inspection will be carried out by the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs and the Animal and Plant Quarantine Agency by 18 officials from nine offices.

Indonesia to import rice after low production THE INDONESIAN BUREAU of Logistics (Bulog) has revealed plans to import at least 600,000 tonnes of rice later this year due to low production caused by weather anomalies and poor irrigation systems.

Bulog president director Sutarto Alimoeso said that the rice imports will be unavoidable because the inventory had declined sharply after the government needed to provide more rice for the poor after the recent fuel increases.

Alimoeso added that the rice imports were also necessary because of the lower than expected unhusked rice production this year, which was expected to increase only 0.31 per cent to 69.27mn tonnes due to inclement weather.

The Bulog president director noted, “Bulog has to at least keep a year-end stock of two million tonnes to supply needs and stabilise the price during the January-March planting period next year, when stocks are low. Low production combined with the additional allocation for Raskin might lead us to import 600,000 tonnes of rice to keep a minimum amount of stock.”

According to Central Statistics Agency (BPS) data, last year Indonesia produced 69.06mn tonnes of unhusked rice or around 40mn tonnes of rice. The annual national consumption of rice is around 34.05mn tonnes.

Last year, rice production rose 5.02 per cent

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Rice imports are unavoidable this year due to lower than expected unhusked rice production

year-on-year, enabling Bulog to purchase 3.65mn tonnes of rice domestically, which is the agency’s record high for local rice procurement.

In July last year, the government told Bulog to import up to one million tonnes of rice, but only 670,000 tonnes were brought in, 600,000 tonnes from Vietnam and 70,000 tonnes from India.

Agriculture ministry staple food director

general Udhoro Kasih Anggoro said, “If we could rehabilitate the damaged irrigation systems, we could boost products by seven to nine million tonnes of rice a year,” he said at a conference last week.

Agriculture ministry infrastructure director general Gator Irianto said the government needs at least US$2.04bn to fix irrigation systems.

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Malaysia to host Livestock Asia 2013 The seventh edition of the show is expected to host visitors and livestock traders from 32 countries across the world sian feed, livestock and meat industry is set to get a major boost with Malaysia being chosen as the host for this year’s Livestock Asia Expo & Forum.

The show holds a lot of significance at the moment with many experts predicting Asia's pork, beef and other livestock consumption to double by 2020. The steep increase in livestock consumption will pose massive production, demand and supplyrelated challenges for the industry.

Livestock Asia 2013 will take place at the prestigious Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from 24 to 26 September. The expo will be

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The seventh edition of Livestock Asia will feature 300 exhibitors

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hosted by the Department of Veterinary Services, Malaysia.

The 2013 event is expected to be brimming with ideas and packed with information that will further advance the development of the industry. ‘Increase your profit from our Stock Market!’ has been chosen as the theme for Livestock Asia 2013.

The seventh edition of this major exhibit will feature 300 exhibitors from 32 countries.

Key participants will include integrators, farmers, feed millers, pre- mixers, meat processors, slaughter house operators, veterinarians, distributors and retailers.

The show will be a golden opportunity for visitors to inspect the innovations in feed management, animal health and nutrition, closed housing systems, centralised slaughtering facilities and advanced meat processing and packaging systems. It will also provide several business opportunities to the participants.

It will have experts and industry leaders sharing their views and expertise regarding

The show will have experts and industry leaders sharing their views about key future industry trends and their impact in Asia

future industry trends and their impact in Asia. Top local and international speakers will discuss and address a variety of topics relevant to the industry.

The show will feature national pavilions

Livestock Philippines scores success LIVESTOCK PHILIPPINES 2013 scored another successful show with more than 5,000 visitors and 200 exhibitors from 20 countries.

Philippines President Benigno Philippines President Benigno S Aquino III at S Aquino III Livestock Philippines 2013 show inaugurated the show that took place early in August at the SMX Convention Centre in Pasay City, Manila.

An event like Livestock Philippines is always a great opportunity for local and foreign firms to forge partnership to spur the development of Philippine livestock industry. Expos like this form a breeding ground for other bigger opportunities and this year’s show was no exception.

President Aquino led the recognition of the 11 organisations and livestock industry professionals during the first Philippine Feeds Industry 2013 Recognition Rites, for exemplary contribution to the development of the Philippines livestock and feed industries.

UBM Asia (ASEAN Business) managing director M Gandhi said, “Livestock Philippines 2013 is a perfect springboard for all industry players to take full advantage of opportunities to enhance the livestock industry in the region, grow their business and learn from experiences of industry experts and decision makers.”

Former House Speaker of the Philippines Jose de Venecia III said, “The Philippines livestock industry is growing by leaps and bounds and it is part of the strategic food program for the Philippines, Asia and for the world.

“Livestock Philippines 2013 will definitely help in pushing the food sufficiency and augment the income of the Filipino families.”

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from Singapore, UK, China and Thailand amongst others. It will include the Asian Livestock Industry Award and the Malaysian Livestock Industry Award to recognise and reward prominent livestock producers. n

Marine Biomass for better livestock health and nutrition AN OLMIX EVENT held recently in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City stressed on the importance of marine biomass and its use in improving animal health.

The event, which had the theme of ‘Marine Biomass for Nutrition and Human and Animal Health’, was attended by more than 100 participants including feed millers, scholars, livestock specialists and experts, traders and researchers.

Speakers from Vitalac, Benefiq, Inra (French National Research Institute for Agronomy), Amadeite and Zoopôle presented their views on food and safety issues and algae as a source of health for humans and animals.

Visitors were impressed with arguments and explanations offered by representatives from the Parc d'Iroise, a marine natural park off western Brittany, about the high-quality marine algae fields of Molène which could become a resource in active ingredients for the renowned actors of the pharmaceutical.

Some experts argued that freeing the use of antibiotics in the nutrition and health sector and replacing it with the use of algae can be beneficial for improving the quality of livestock products.

Feed millers, scholars, livestock specialists and researchers attended the event in Vietnam

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Events

Myanmar and Indonesia awaits Ildex The show will be held in two of the most significant locations of Southeast Asia and seek to address issues being faced by their livestock industries

Scenes from Ildex Myanmar 2012

LDEX SHOWS ARE set to create a buzz in the Asian livestock industry with Ildex Myanmar scheduled to take place in Yangon and Ildex Indonesia set to take place in Jakarta in the months of September and October this year.

Ildex Myanmar will be organised from 12– 14 September, 2013 at Tatmadaw Exhibition Hall in Yangon while Ildex Indonesia will be held from 3-5 October in JI Expo in Jakarta.

After the resounding success of the show in 2012, a lot of hope has been pinned on the Ildex Myanmar show this year as well. It is identified as on the most premier livestock trade fairs in the region.

Ildex Myanmar is appreciated by the local traders, and livestock industry experts from across the world as well.

Livestock industry professionals are looking forward to take part in the show, which promises to be more focussed on technology transfer for effective production this year.

Myanmar’s government has established an economic zone to stimulate substantial exports, such as agricultural products and refrigerated and frozen fish. The country’s Open Door Policy has enabled it to be a strategic hub linking South Asia, ASEAN, and China. The scheme has led to regional economic development.

Myanmar’s economic structure is dependant on agricultural sector which results in an increase on needs for farming machinery in Myanmar.

The government is also aiming to expand domestic livestock and aquaculture markets to

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Ildex brings together trade partners from countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India to display and demonstrate their latest technology innovations and share knowledge on livestock and aquaculture production the international markets. Therefore, a show like Ildex Myanmar holds utmost importance in the country at the current moment.

Ildex Myanmar 2012 had brought together leading trade partners from several countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India to display and demonstrate their technology innovations and share their knowledge on livestock and aquaculture

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development through seminars, training sessions, and business talks.

Ildex Myanmar’s success in 2012 also laid on efficient cooperation and support from government, and private sectors for example Myanmar Fisheries Federation, Myanmar Livestock Federation, the International Trade Exhibition & Seminar of Livestock and Fishery Technology (VIV).

Ildex Indonesia similarly holds a special place in the Indonesian livestock markets as an established show on the livestock industry.

Indonesia's economy is huge and has a bright economic growth outlook currently.

The consumption demand on the livestock products has been increasing rapidly. Although the livestock industry is strong, it can still be further improved with technology transfers in order to be able to produce locally and not relying too much on imported products.

The show will try to address such issues and try to open up avenues that can enable such technology transfer. The modernisation of livestock industry will aim to produce hygienic, safe and affordable products to meet domestic needs. n

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Events

Biomin to host nutrition forum

Plant pathology meet provides scientific outlook

BIOMIN WILL HOST the Asia Nutrition Forum (ANF), an event spanning six cities, Qingdao, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Seoul, Tokyo and Hyderabad from 14 to 24 October 2013.

The theme of the forum will be NutriEconomics – Balancing Global Nutrition & Productivity, with a focus on people, performance, profit and planet.

Biomin founder and director of executive board Erich Erber said, “Survival alone is not enough. We need to progress in order to feed an evergrowing world population. Despite increasing crop yields and more advanced food production techniques, hunger and starvation are problems that still exist today.

“Where food needs are adequate, the right balance of nutrients is most important, especially for a young child.”

At the ANF, key industry professionals from the poultry, pig, dairy and aquaculture sectors will gather to discuss issues faced by the food and agri-industry at present.

The forum will see a high-level panel of renowned industry experts, including University of South Australia professor Mary Barton, John C Baize and associates president John Baize, University of New England professor and consultant research scientist (Nutrition) of Barneveld Nutrition and Robert Van Barneveld and Aviagen technical service nutritionist Leonardo Linares.

A statement from ANF said, “The fundamental aim of the intensive livestock production is to convert plantderived feed into animal protein in the most efficient, cost-effective and sustainable manner.

“Genetics, nutrition, husbandry practices, the environment and consumer demands will continue to be the fundamental drivers of change.”

It added that addressing the issue of the environment, NutriEconomics will continue to influence the role of animal nutrition in achieving sustainable yet profitable farming. Besides growing competition for agricultural commodities from the food, feed and biofuel sectors (feed security), producers are also faced with obligations to cap carbon emissions – a move that will have significant bearing on production costs.

THE 10TH INTERNATIONAL Congress of Plant Pathology was held recently at the Beijing International Convention Center (BICC) in China.

The theme of the Congress for 2013 was “Biosecurity, Food Safety and Plant Pathology: The Role of Plant Pathology in a Globalized Economy”.

The event also incorporated the annual meeting of the Chinese Society for Plant Pathology.

The event, which is held every five years, saw a huge success in its 2013 chapter with visitors and participants pouring in from various corners of the globe. It provided a forum for the presentation and dissemination of the most recent advances and developments in plant pathology, with the aim of promoting international collaboration among researchers from different countries

and regions. Plant pathologists from around the world are invited to participate in this Congress The Congress discussed the scientific advances made in the world of plant heath and productivity dealing with diseases, its control, recovery, nourishment and cultivation.

The sessions at the meet also discussed the much-debated topic of organic farming in great detail. Such a topic holds a lot of significance in current times with the greater part of the Asian agriculture community divided about the concept and usefulness of organic farming.

The event also witnessed cultural shows and corporate dinners.

The International Society of Plant Pathology is already looking forward to its 11th International Congress of Plant Pathology in Boston, USA, in 2018.

Conference on livestock production returns after five years THE WORLD ASSOCIATION for Animal Production (WAAP) and the Chinese Association of Animal Science & Veterinary Medicine (CAAV) will be hosting the 11th World Conference on Animal Production (11th WCAP) in Beijing from 15-20 October 2013.

The show, which takes place every five years, had taken place in South Africa in 2008.

This year, China has been chosen as the venue for the show due to the country’s significant livestock industry, which is brimming with the latest innovations, trends and challenges. The expo will be hosted at the Beijing International Convention Center and Beijing Continental Grand Hotel.

A statement from the 11th WCAP Organizing Committee president Defa Li claimed, “Meat production in China is in the top level in the world. Chinese pigs, sheep,

chicken, ducks make up the largest percentage of the world livestock.

“China localises in the North Temperate Zone, characterised by a typical continental climate and distinctive four seasons. Numerous regional domestic animals with unique genotypes represent the local environmental characteristics.

This populous country has created such a huge consuming market that attracts the world agricultural industries.”

The show promises to be a valuable experience for all foreign visitors, livestock industry traders, experts, farmers, feed and health experts and participants due to the wide range of information and knowledge that the show will offer.

Needless to say, it’ll prove to be an important meeting point for traders from across the world and help in developing more valuable business contacts.

China has been chosen as the venue for the show due to the country’s significant livestock industry

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Poultry

Poultry housing in the tropics Heat, humidity and environmental stress pose several challenges to poultry housing in tropical areas OULTRY HOUSING IS often custom-designed for the tropical regions keeping in mind conditions related to latitude and relative importance of physical factors like temperature, humidity, solar radiation and air movement. Poultry farmers need to design the housing for the poultry according to the exact conditions experienced in the particular tropical zone.

A wide range of options are available to poultry producers in the tropics to alleviate heat stress in birds. Passive measures such as house orientation to the sun, poultry houses designed with open sides and use of shade trees, shrubs and ground cover plants are part and parcel of poultry house and farm design and construction in the tropics.

More proactive measures include the use of fan systems to create air circulation and mist and fogging systems for evaporative cooling of the house and the birds. Manipulation of diet is increasingly recognised as an important strategy. Vitamins such as ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), mineral elements like zinc and the plant extract betaine have all shown benefits in the alleviation of heat stress in poultry.

However, some of the aspects that a farmer needs to consider before making a poultry housing arrangement in a tropical areas are:

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Air temperature and relative humidity can affect poultry heath and quality of poultry products

Relative humidity is the pre-eminent factor at and around the Equator, especially in rain forested areas. Temperature is clearly the most important factor in semi-arid and arid (desert) zones. The significance of day length effect which is most important for laying hens becomes more critical further away from the Equator.

Everyone knows that air temperature is consistently and uniformly higher the nearer you get to the Equator, but few stop to think exactly why.

Temperature, humidity and solar radiation Ambient air temperature and relative humidity are closely bound, although relative importance of each varies markedly within tropical latitudes.

Domestic poultry is less tolerant to heat than cold and much more likely to die from heat stress than stress associated with low temperature

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Virtually all heat energy affecting the earth at any one time comes from solar radiation. Total amounts received in various parts of the world are determined by two simple factors which are the duration and the intensity of solar radiation striking the earth. These twin factors are governed by two aspects of global movement – the planet earth continually travelling around the sun and the globe (earth) constantly spinning on its own axis.

Those areas receiving solar radiation from the sun at its maximum elevation (i.e. ninety degrees and directly over the Equator) enjoy the most intense radiation because it is concentrated over the smallest surface area of land mass. In addition, the solar radiation travels through a shorter distance of atmosphere to reach the earth thus minimising its liability to diffraction (diversion from its path) caused by mineral particles in the air. This is why Equatorial regions are always hotter than temperate regions although high frequency of dense cloud cover and heavy rainfall over the Equator will modify these conditions.

Altitude plays a part too because the atmosphere is heated from the earth’s surface upward so for every 1,000 metres increase in elevation, ambient temperature falls by five degree centigrade. The extent to which temperature affects the birds is also modified by relative humidity. Air saturated with water vapour at high temperature significantly reduces the birds’ capacity to cool down through heat loss by evaporation. Of all the conditions experienced by poultry in tropical zones high temperature and high humidity in tandem is by far the most stress inducing scenario.

The duration of natural daylight may change throughout the year and the only time day and night are of closely comparable length (12 hours: 12 hours) is at the vernal (spring) and autumn equinox of 23 March and 22 September, respectively. On the Equator (0° latitude), day length is perpetually a fraction over 12 hours. As you move away from the Equator, with progressively increasing latitude (north or south), there is a corresponding increase in disparity between the longest day at the height of summer and the shortest day in the depth of winter.

For instance poultry produced in central India will typically experience very high June daytime temperatures around 40°C, falling by up to half at night. January daytime temperatures may be substantial at around 25°C but fall to a distinctly chilly 10°C or below at night. On the other hand, poultry produced along the Equator in Malaysia and Indonesia, especially near dense rain-forested regions, will experience high temperatures varying little throughout the year, although in these locations relative humidity poses the biggest constraint on efficient production.

For example, average New Delhi daytime/night-time temperatures in January are 21ºC falling to 7ºC at night, while June temperatures are 39ºC falling slightly to 28ºC at night. But this does not tell the whole temperature story because maximum recorded June high is 46ºC and January low -1ºC. Daytime (am) humidity varies widely throughout the year, approximately from 35 per cent to 80 per cent, but only exceeds 70 per cent in July and August. Temperature at particular times of the year is clearly the single biggest factor for heat stress in this region of India.

However, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia has average daytime and nighttime temperatures of 32-33ºC and 22-23ºC, respectively, throughout the

Poultry are poorly adapted to high ambient air temperatures because they lack sweat glands in the skin

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Birds can lose heat through an activity called ‘panting’ which starts to occur when body temperature reaches 43°C

year and an extremely high day time humidity reaching a stifling 97 per cent. Clearly, for the Kuala Lumpur area, high temperature in tandem with high humidity is the most significant component causing heat stress.

Environmental stress in poultry The physiology of domestic poultry and how it interacts with various physical factors in relation to environmental stress is complex but there are several key points which help to explain the broader picture.

First and foremost, the internal body temperature of domesticated gallinaceous birds (chickens) at 41.2 – 42.2°C is measurably higher than that of mammalian livestock and humans (36 – 39°C). The upper temperature limit beyond which living cells and tissues will progressively fail to operate is governed by the temperature at which enzymes (enzymic proteins) are denatured or destroyed by loss of configuration and chemical activity. This starts to occur in the region of 47°C and thus poultry have considerably less leeway than other animals when suffering from heat stress and quickly succumb to this kind of temperature.

In contrast, the actual body temperature of poultry can fall as much as 20°C below the normal range with birds still making a full recovery if carefully re-warmed. Domestic poultry is clearly less tolerant to heat than cold and much more likely to die from heat stress (hyperthermia) than stress associated with low temperature (hypothermia).

Poultry are poorly adapted and ill-disposed to high ambient air temperatures because they lack sweat glands in the skin and are therefore unable to gain much from natural evaporative cooling, although there is some direct diffusion of water through the skin tissue. Only the head appendages (e.g. comb) are very rich in blood vessels and thus able to act as sites for direct loss of heat. Net result is poultry have few and limited inherent options for heat loss in warm conditions.

Chickens dip their faces in water and allow drips to fall from the facial appendages thus encouraging some loss of heat when the water evaporates from the surface of the body. Blood vessels in the facial appendages and the legs vasodilate (come closer to the surface of the skin). This accelerates so called sensible heat loss (conduction, convection and radiation) from the body in addition to the so called ‘insensible’ heat loss by evaporation. The distinction is made because sensible heat loss contributes to a warming up of the poultry environment whereas evaporation actually takes heat out of the environment by absorbing ‘Latent Heat of Evaporation’.

Be that as it may, most of the heat loss achieved by hens occurs through the respiratory system and more specifically the lungs. The lungs, although small in relation to total body size, have big nonvascular air sacs which play no role in gaseous exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide. Instead they present large areas of wet surface for loss of water by evaporation and therefore evaporative cooling. Birds lose this heat through an activity called ‘panting’ which starts to occur when body

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temperature reaches 43°C. When negative effects of high humidity come into play, additional related problems specifically dangerous to poultry are posed. Air saturated (full up) with water vapour prevents further water loss from birds through evaporation. The role of relative humidity is closely associated with temperature. At around 20°C relative humidity can be raised up to 90 per cent with seemingly little effect on either food conversion efficiency or growth rate but at 29°C the elevation of relative humidity to around 70°C has a discernible inhibitory effect

on the growth rate of broiler birds.

Bird’s continually generate heat through body metabolism but during high ambient air temperatures of 35 to 40°C, which are not much below normal internal body temperature, they are unable to discharge all of this extra heat through evaporation of moisture. Body temperature therefore starts to rise causing even more heat to be produced and if unchecked can cause acute heat stress and death from hyperthermia. n

By Terry Mabbett

Wheat as an energy source for pig and poultry WHEAT, LIKE MANY other cereals, can vary widely in chemical composition because it is affected by cereal cultivar, soil type, environmental conditions and fertilisation. However, most wheat used in feeds has 10 to 15 per cent crude protein.

It can prove to be a great source of energy in feed for both pigs and poultry.

Wheat contains 50 per cent more lysine and 300 per cent more tryptophan than maize and has about the same amino acid profile (as relates to protein) as barley.

Therefore, wheat-based diets need less protein supplementation than maize-based diets. Amino acid digestibilities in wheat are not drastically different from those in maize with digestibilities of lysine, methionine, threonine and tryptophan of 72, 84, 70, and 79 per cent compared to 68, 85, 69, and 67 per cent in maize.

The crude fibre concentration in wheat is two to three per cent the same as in maize. However, wheat has only 1.5 to two per cent lipids compared to three to four per cent for maize, which contributes to the lower energy content compared with maize (about 95 per cent the energy of maize).

Mineral concentrations in wheat are about the same as in maize. However, wheat has natural phytase that releases phytin phosphorus, much like an exogenous phytase. Thus, wheat has a phosphorus digestibility of 50 per cent as opposed to just 15 per cent in maize.

Vitamin and trace mineral concentrations in wheat are not different enough from maize to justify changes in vitamin or trace mineral premixes when changing from maize to wheat.

Wheat has been reported to have a feeding value 92 to 100 per cent of maize.

It has 10 to 15 per cent more digestible energy than barley and has about a five per cent higher feeding value than sorghum. The feeding value does not

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for big results The feeding value of wheat does not differ among soft and hard varieties of wheat, or white and red varieties

differ among soft and hard varieties of wheat, or white and red varieties.

Pig research has shown consistent and significant increases in digestibility of nutrients and performance as particle size is reduced, but this has not been confirmed in poultry. Similarly, in pigs, fine grinding has been blamed for increased stomach ulceration. However, more than one stressful factor seems to be needed for development of severe stomach ulceration.

In contrast, poultry can be fed diets based in full or part on whole wheat without loss of performance, but this requires careful planning of the whole nutrition program.

Wheat contains a significant amount of non-starch polysaccharides known as pentosans, in addition to beta-glucans (which abound in barley). Pentosans are considered the primary source of antinutritional activity in wheat. In several research reports, the inclusion of enzymes to break down these anti-nutritional compounds has resulted in improved growth performance in pigs. But practical results have been variable, perhaps because wheat variety plays such a huge role in the response of pigs to enzymes. In contrast, results appear to be more consistent in poultry, where such enzymes as pentosanases and glucanases are used quite frequently.

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GM diet may harm pig health, says study Prolonged use of GM crops and feed supplements can damage pig intestinal tracts and reproductive health STUDY CONDUCTED IN a US piggery has revealed that GM diet may become harmful to animal health if administered for a long time.

A long-term study of pigs fed a combination of genetically modified (GM) soybeans and GM corn maize showed differences in the animals’ reproductive and intestinal tracts and liver compared with those fed a non-GM diet.

In a paper published in Journal of Organic Systems, Judy Carman from the Institute of Health and Environmental Research in Kensington Park, South Australia and co-authors report differences in the reproductive system of gilts and the health of the stomachs and livers of growing pigs fed a diet based on GM maize and GM soybean meal compared with those fed a similar diet based on non-GM ingredients.

Researchers took 168 just-weaned pigs and fed them a typical diet for the piggery,

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containing soy and corn, for 22.7 weeks (over five months) until the pigs were slaughtered at their usual slaughter age. Half of the pigs were fed widely-used varieties of GM soy and GM corn for this whole period and the other half of the pigs were fed an equivalent non-GM diet.

The researchers chose pigs because they have a similar digestive system to humans, and because some of the investigators had been observing reproductive and digestive problems in pigs fed GM crops.

They took blood from the pigs a few days before they were slaughtered to do standard biochemistry tests. Autopsies were done by veterinarians who did not know if a given pig was fed the GM diet or not, so that their observations remained completely unbiased.

The researchers reported that some of the investigators had previously seen a reduced ability to conceive and higher rates of

Researchers chose pigs for the study because they have digestive systems similar to humans

miscarriage in piggeries where sows were fed a GM diet and a reduction in the number of piglets born if boars were used for conception rather than artificial insemination.

Artificial insemination guarantees the presence of a certain number of viable sperm.

Because male pigs were neutered at three days of age in order to provide meat free of boartaint, the researchers were only able to look at the female reproductive system in these pigs.

They found that, on average, the weight of the uterus of pigs fed the GM diet, as a proportion of the weight of the pig, was 25 per cent higher than the control pigs. The researchers found that this biologically significant finding was also statistically significant. They list some of the pathologies that could be occurring in these uteri in the paper.

Some of the investigators had also previously seen higher rates of intestinal problems in pigs fed a GM diet, including inflammation of the stomach and small intestine, stomach ulcers, a thinning of intestinal walls and an increase in haemorrhagic bowel disease, where a pig can rapidly bleed-out from their bowel and die.

The researchers were not able to look inside the intestines, due to the amount of food in them, but were able to look inside the stomach. They found that the level of severe inflammation in stomachs was markedly higher in pigs fed the GM diet.

Pigs on the GM diet were 2.6 times more likely to get severe stomach inflammation than control pigs. While 22 per cent of male pigs and 42 per cent of female pigs on the GM diet had severe stomach inflammation, when these pigs were compared to pigs on the control diet, it was found that male pigs were actually more strongly affected. While female pigs were 2.2 times more likely to get severe stomach inflammation when on the GM diet, males were four times more likely. These findings are both biologically and statistically significant.

The researchers report that these key findings were not reflected in the standard biochemistry tests that are done in GM feeding studies, probably because standard biochemistry tests provide a poor measure of inflammation and matters associated with uterus size. They did, however, find a marginally significant change on a measure of liver health in the blood of GM-fed pigs. n Source: www.thepigsite.com

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Wood eating pigs to soon become a reality A TEAM OF researchers at Tawian’s Tunghai University (THU) is working to create wood-eating, environmentally-friendly pigs, by splicing genes from cellulose-digesting microbes in termite guts into pigs.

The wood eating pigs will be expected to reduce production costs of farmers with consuming of wood rather than corn.

A report in Taiwan Today said that professor Cheng Teng-kuei, who is leading the project and also known as Taiwan’s pioneer in cattle cloning, said that his team at THU has isolated five termite gut bacteria enzymes.

The genes from these termites were spliced into rats, and the first litters of transgenic rats carrying the enzymes were born last month, the first step in the team’s effort to create transgenic pigs.

Previously, Cheng created the world’s first grass-eating swine by splicing genes from cow-stomach microbes into pigs. This time, Cheng said his inspiration came from a tree trunk on campus that had been hollowed by termites.

Cheng’s cross-departmental team found that termites have a microbe in their gut that produces an enzyme able to break down cellulose, the main component of wood.

According to Cheng, once the gene is successfully spliced into pigs, the genetically modified animals will be able to consume wood waste instead of corn.

This could produce cleaner, less odorous excrement in addition to lowering production costs.

Pea protein, a potential broiler feed HEAT-PROCESSED PEA PROTEIN concentrate (PPC) can prove to be a good alternative to fermented soybean meal and unheated PPC in broiler starter diets, according to researchers at the University Polytechnic in Madrid.

The effects of autoclaving two varieties of micronised (fine grinding) PPC on the ileal digestibility of crude protein and amino acids were studied in broilers by M Frikha and colleagues at the university.

According to their paper in Poultry Science, there was a control diet based on fermented soybean meal and four additional diets in which the FSBM was substituted on a crude protein basis by PPC from two different pea cultivars, either unheated or autoclaved. Chicks were fed a common diet from one to 17 days of age and, then, their respective experimental diets from 18 to 21 days of age. Each treatment was replicated six times.

Autoclaving reduced trypsin inhibitor activity but had little effect on the saponin content of the PPC. The apparent ileal digestibility (AID) of crude protein was similar for the FSBM and the unheated PPC and lower for both than for the autoclaved PPC. In the PPC, autoclaving improved the AID of crude protein (87.6 per cent versus 82.2 per cent) and most indispensable amino acids, e.g. 92.1 per cent versus. 88.8 per cent for lysine and 83.6 per cent versus 76.5 per cent for threonine.

The improvements in crude protein and amino acid digestibility with autoclaving varied with the PPC used and was consistent with the reduction in TIA observed from 9.4 to 2.8mg per/g for PPC-1 and from 9.1 to 5.3mg per/g for PPC-2.

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Electrolysed oxidising water to kill beef pathogens ELECTROLYSED OXIDISING WATER study ways to kill foodborne pathogens on can be used to reduce shiga toxinbeef before it arrives on supermarket producing E. coli (STEC) on beef, shelves and in restaurant kitchens. according to a recent study conducted at The overall project focuses on six University of Georgia. different processing technologies for the The process has earlier been used to entire beef-value chain, from meat sanitise poultry, kill fungi on nurseryprocessing facilities to super markets. grown plants and remove pathogens The goal is to determine which from produce. technology or combination of Food scientist Yen-Con Hung has technologies is effective and feasible to carried out a series of research on the use adopt across the industry, he said. of electrolysed oxidising (EO) water to The food industry currently uses a make food safer and surfaces cleaner. EO chlorine solution to kill bacteria. Acidic EO water is created when a saltwater solution water can be up to 10 times more Acidic EO water can be up to 10 times more effective in goes through an electrolysis process that killing harmful bacteria on beef than traditional methods effective at killing harmful bacteria than separates the water’s positive and traditional methods, Hung claimed. negative ions. during processing.

In 2009 the USDA Economic Research Hung’s latest project uses EO water to Hung said, “If we can prevent the STEC Service estimated the annual economic cost inactivate levels of seven strains of STEC from getting on the carcass, we can prevent it of illness caused by STEC O157 was pathogens in beef processing. This year from getting in the ground beef.

US$478mn. alone, more than 55,000 pounds of beef “This uses both EO water forms, This estimate included medical costs due products have been recalled due to the alkaline to clean the hide and acidic to kill to illness, kidney dialysis and transplant presence of STEC, he said. the STEC on the surface.” costs, the value of time lost from work due to To inactivate the pathogens, Hung and his This project is part of a five-year, US$4.9mn nonfatal illness and the value of premature colleagues applied EO water to beef hides grant from the US Department of Agriculture to death, Hung said.

Transgenic bananas to be used as oral vaccine for PRRS THE NATIONAL TAIWAN University (NTU) has reported that it has developed transgenic bananas to vaccinate swine against Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus (PRRSV), also known as blue ear pig disease.

NTU Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture professor Huang Pung-ling and NTU Graduate Institute of Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology director professor Jeng Chian-ren headed the research team.

With this new oral vaccine, Huang said, “Pigs can eat the vaccine as raw food. It is extremely convenient and there is no risk of secondary infection or attenuation of vaccine proteins in the cooking process.”

In the industry, current PPRS vaccines are

Pigs can eat the vaccine as raw food with the help of this oral vaccine

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seen as limited and not extremely effective.

“After feeding the pigs with 50gm of banana leaves from the transgenic banana plants, three times at a two-week interval, the serum and tissue viral loads dropped,” Huang said.

Genetic engineering technology was used to transfer genetic material of the virus to the banana chromosome. The banana functions as a bioreactor, resulting in a vegetable oral vaccine.

“Patents have already been secured in Taiwan, the US and mainland China,” Huang said.

Europe, US and Asia have all faced PRRS problems in the respective livestock sectors.

Taiwan, Vietnam and China have all been affected by the disease over the decades since the 1980s while researchers across the globe worked hard to find a cure for the disease. Recently, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) confirmed that India has reported PRRS for the first time.

PRRS causes reproductive failure in breeding stock and respiratory tract illness in young pigs.

Initially referred to as “mystery swine disease” and “mystery reproductive syndrome,” it was first reported in 1987 in North America and Central Europe. The disease costs the United States swine industry around US$600mn annually.

Vietnam tightens bird flu combat measures THE VIETNAMESE NATIONAL steering committee on bird flu prevention has instructed local governments in the country to build lines of defense and ban breeding of waterfowl from September.

The Vietnamese minister of agriculture and rural development Cao Duc Phat said in a statement in Hanoi that to prevent bird flu outbreaks, especially in northern Vietnamese border provinces, the country should establish three lines of defense.

These include controlling border areas to prevent poultry trafficking, preventing transport of infected birds and tightening poultry farming norms.

Bui Ba Bong, his deputy, announced that any waterfowl stocks hatched after 1 September 2013 will be destroyed.

As for birds hatched before that date, owners will have to pledge they will vaccinate the birds and keep them in restricted areas.

Although a nationwide duck ban until February 2007 is already in place, Vietnamese farmers have not taken it seriously.

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New dimensions to oil palm production Implementing innovative production processes can offer the palm oil industry in Southeast Asia an edge over the other markets OUTHEAST ASIA IS currently the hub of oil palm cultivation with Indonesia and Malaysia accounting for 85-90 per cent of worldwide production of the crop. The two countries together produce 50,000mn tonnes of oil palm with the next three biggest producers being Thailand with 2,100mn tonnes and Colombia and Nigeria with around 1,000mn tonnes each. The mass extraction, production and processing of oil palm posses several challenges that can be addressed with innovative dimensions introduced to the production process.

Despite the huge plantation areas, there are no easy economic options for oil palm. Breeding higher yielding trees of small stature to make harvesting of bunches easier and extend the period when nuts can be economically harvested from tall mature trees, continue as important plant breeding strategies. However, in recent times, novel dimensions using combinations of micronutrients and biostimulants, to manipulate oil palm physiology, growth and development, is opening up new avenues to maximising production.

As the area and intensity of oil palm planting increases, more and more new plantings are made on land previously occupied by oil palm or other plantation monocultures like rubber. This has intensified traditional plant health problems caused by root and stem base infecting pathogens, such as Ganoderma spp, which infect a broad range of trees including oil palm. Infections in old redundant trees and plant debris in the soil readily transfers onto outreaching roots of newly planted trees.

Integrated micronutrient and biostimulation technology is used to enhance the oil palm plant’s capacity to ward off or cope with fungal infection and manifestation of the disease.

Oil palm agronomists in Malaysia are focussing on enhancing growth and development of nursery seedlings so that transplanted oil palm start yielding and comes into maximum oil production much sooner, while making these field plants more resilient to disease.

Shortening the non-productive period

An oil palm nursery seedling infected with Curvularia spp

commercial oil palm is an inherently long term yielder, but economic production eventually comes to an end, around 25 years earlier than other tropical tree crops.

Oil palm production targets are invariably pre-occupied with yield per season and extending economic life by breeding shorter stature trees from which bunches can be more easily harvested. Oil palm agronomists often look at the early deficit in grower income caused by the inevitable ‘oil dry’ and ‘oil lean’ periods. These occur from seed germination and nursery planting until transplanted trees bear bunches and come into their peak oil production years.

On-going investigation is focused on minimising these lean periods for trees by hastening growth and development of nursery plants so that transplanted trees start to bear fruit sooner and reach peak oil production more quickly.

The working life profile of healthy oil palm covers a 20-30 year time span. Seed takes around 120 days to germinate with seedlings spending 10-12 months in the nursery. Transplanted oil palm comes into peak production at around the sixth year. Economic production is terminated some 25 years later, basically because the trees become too tall for the comfortable harvesting of bunches.

At the centre of current research into trimming the period from

Photograph: Oils and Fats International

Growing oil palm is all about maintaining economic flow of the golden liquid (palm oil) over the longest possible period. As a tree crop,

Photograph: K.C. Lee, Malaysia

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transplanting and onset of peak production is a bio-stimulant product from Omex Agrifluids called Bio20, a highly-concentrated emulsion containing macro nutrients (plus magnesium), chelated micronutrients and a marine alga (seaweed) derived extract. Bio20 has already proved its worth in maximising crop resilience to stress caused by high temperatures, soil conditions, including moisture availability, and pathogenic microbes across a wide range of crops including citrus, fruits and vines, ornamentals and cereals including rice.

The product is formulated to supply seedlings and more mature plants with essential nutrients and ‘elements’ from a single seaweed variety extract that have proven root stimulation properties and effects.

Bio20 use in oil palm aims to accelerate the growth and accumulation of root biomass and to maintain and sustain it at higher overall levels. Trials involving foliar sprays and root drenches of nursery oil palm plants with Bio20 are underway with the aim of bringing plants into bearing and peak oil production more quickly.

Photograph: K.C. Lee, Malaysia

The working life profile of healthy oil palm covers a 20-30 year time span.

Seed takes around 120 days to germinate with seedlings spending 1012 months in the nursery. Transplanted oil palm comes into peak production at around the sixth year Fighting the oil plant diseases right The oil palm trees are under constant threat from a wide range of insect pests and diseases that can affect this tree crop. The most damaging, as far as Southeast Asia is concerned, is a lethal and terminal disease called basal stem rot (butt rot or trunk rot). The disease is caused by a Basidiomycete (bracket forming) fungal pathogen called Ganoderma which exists as a number of different species.

These root and basal stem diseases are caused by a range of Basidiomycete fungal pathogens and affect a wide range of tree crops including rubber and coconut, as well as oil palm. They are difficult to control from biological, logistical and economic perspectives. Firstly,

Photograph: K.C. Lee, Malaysia

Trials to trim the time period before transplanted oil palm starts to bear bunches are targeted at the nursery seedling stage

Harvesting bunches from tall mature trees requires high reach cutting activity

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because they are soil-borne diseases which easily transfer from infected old trees and plant debris onto re-planted oil palm. And, secondly due to the deep-seated nature of infection which makes it extremely difficult to manage with fungicides. Infection foci on individual trees invariably lead to huge collateral losses as healthy trees around these infection foci are grubbed out in an effort to stop the spread of disease.

Oil palm plants infected with Ganoderma exhibit a range of characteristic disease symptoms. Spears stay closed and the lower leaves dry out and droop forming a ‘cloak’ around the plant. Fungal fruiting bodies (brackets) may grow on the stem. A sponge-like rot develops at the base of the stem weakening the tree which eventually kneels over and collapses.

Complete removal of old oil palm trees (also rubber and coconuts) from land earmarked for re-planting with young oil palm plants is an essential requirement for economic disease management, but invariably not enough because some plant debris will always remain as residue in the soil. Several products from the Omex are being investigated and trialled in Malaysia to boost oil palm defences and resilience to Ganoderma.

First in line is Biomex Plus a biological fertiliser that works in the crop plant’s favour as a soil amendment product. Biomex Plus is a unique patented co-formulation of macro and micronutrients as potassium, manganese, zinc and phosphate (as water soluble phosphite) plus Bacillus amyloliquefaciens, an unmodified rhizobacterium and naturally occurring soil micro-organism.

Plants treated with Biomex Plus are better equipped and able to compensate for stress caused by biotic factors (pathogens) and abiotic factors (e.g. drought and salinity). Biomex Plus is applied to the oil palm planting hole.

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Reduced disease frequency, intensity and severity with enhanced plant health are proven for Biomex Plus across a wide range of crops.

The two key biostimulatory and soil amendment factors in Biomex Plus are water soluble phosphite ions and beneficial bacteria.

Phosphite ions are well-established in bolstering the defences of crop plants against infection and disease development. Phosphite is rapidly taken up by roots and mobilised throughout the plant via the xylem (water conducting tissue). It acts as a vehicle for the rapid and substantial movement of low mobility calcium ions (Ca2+) into the plant where they play vital tissue strengthening roles in the middle lamella made of calcium pectate which cements the cell walls together. The beneficial bacteria in Biomex Plus develop on the root system to stimulate growth and shield the roots from infection by soil borne pathogens.

Also under investigation by Omex Agrifluids is a novel phosphite formulation called Phytomex (0-28-0-8Mn) based on manganese phosphite. Omex is trialling this product as a working alternative to more traditional use of potassium phosphite and ammonium phosphite in Omex’s DP98. Omex believes that oil palm estates should be given the choice and opportunity of making most of manganese an essential micronutrient for oil palm.

Potassium is a crucially important macronutrient for oil palm but the plants should generally receive more than enough from carefully measured and balanced macronutrient NPK applications. As with Biomex Plus, the phosphite component plays a crucial role in strengthening the oil palm plant’s ability to cope with infection and disease development. Nutrients are also being used in a biostimulatory

Photograph: K.C. Lee, Malaysia

Some more disease control measures

Bunches on tall trees that grow out of reasonable reach often result in shortening of the economic life of oil palm

capacity to enhance the ability of nursery oil palm seedlings to cope with foliar disease. Screening trials currently underway are investigating how Omex’s DP98 can improve plant health through optimum nutrition by enhancing the natural resistance and resilience of plants to the Curvularia spp fungal pathogen that causes a debilitating leaf spotting disease of seedlings in Southeast Asian oil palm nurseries. n Dr Terry Mabbett

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Coconut industry holds promises despite challenges Even with falling coconut prices and pest scare, Philippines can continue to bank on its coconut crop, which still contributes substantially to the country’s coffers S ONE OF the pillars of Philippines agriculture sector, the coconut industry contributes greatly to the country’s coffers, earning at least US$700mn to US$1bn yearly. It also directly or indirectly affects one fourth of the total population of 95mn in the Philippines.

The coconut crop and its by-products continue to be the source of livelihood for several thousands of people in Southeast Asia, which is the most prominent destination for the cultivation of this crop. The crop is also being considered as one of the prominent sources of biodiesel in the near future.

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Challenges faced by the industry The industry is confronted with some challenges that need immediate attention.

Foremost are the low prices of coconut products in the world market where total export value in 2012 went down to US$1.54bn from US$1.95bn in 2011.

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(PCA), the decline was due to the ongoing recession in many countries.

Another problem is the Brontispa pest infestation which swarmed the plantation in CALABARZON (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon). Although the PCA assured that only 0.05 per cent or around 931,139 trees of the total 340mn coconut trees were infested, the situation was nevertheless alarming as it could have worsened.

The PCA, however, claims that it has been intensifying efforts to eliminate the insects through biological means.

The coconut farmers’ dependence on copra or the dried meat kernel of the coconut is of prime importance. Coconut by-product, copra meal is among the biggest export earners at US$114.86mn in 2012, a big jump from US$58.79mn a year ago. For the longest time, farmers have relied much on copra whereas numerous products can be made out of coconut.

Now that copra prices have collapsed to US$0.09 a kilo from US$1.01 a kilo,

farmers should be more resourceful in utilising the crop. In his column in Philippines daily Business Mirror, financial analyst and former banker Bingo Dejaresco said that he believed that there was more to coconut than just copra.

“The wonder tree still has a hundred different uses...for instance, by August this year, a new US$4.61mn coconut processing plant will open in Baybay City, Leyte to sell coco juice and cater to the big demand of health-conscious Americans for organic-based food and drinks.

Imagine the company’s buying stations in Leyte and Samar will buy 200,000 coconuts daily to produce 80,000 litres of coconut juice for shipment to America.”

Coconut by-products While other countries like Brazil, Indonesia and Thailand are cashing in on coconut water sales, some coconut industry experts believe that Philippines should also tread the same path and try to generate more revenue form sale of coconut water. One reason behind the idea is its soaring sales which went up by 800 per cent last year. “We are sure that demand is much bigger than that and it can be a highselling product for Western nations as well as

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health-conscious Japan,” added Dejaresco.

On the other hand, PCA administrator Euclides Forbes noted that other coconut-based products were making waves in the international market like coco sugar and the virgin coconut oil (VCO).

A research conducted by University of Santo Tomas said that VCO helps in reducing risk of stroke and heart attack. VCO, which earlier concluded by the western countries as “deadly” because of its huge fat content, has been contradicted by American expert Bruce Fife who even published a book about the benefits of VCO. VCO is also known as anti-fungal, antibacterial and also a beauty enhancer which helps skin and hair. Another healthy product that farmers can earnestly profit from is coconut flour.

Dejaresco said that coconut flour can be a healthier substitute from the imported flour from the US as it is free from gluten and supplies great dietary fibre to produce a lot of recipe-based food for desserts, drinks and pastries like pies, cookies, muffins and even as a thickening agent for sauces like gravies.

A new biodiesel?

With fluctuating prices of fuel in the world market, the Philippines government is also exploring the possibilities of using coconut oil as a blend for biodiesel which is environmentfriendly and will make the country less dependent on oil imports as well as an additional income for the farmers.

According to Forbes, the five per cent mixture of coconut methyl ester will significantly reduce emissions and if approved by the Aquino administration, biofuel producers will need an additional 21,000 tonnes of coconut oil for blending which will greatly benefit coconut farmers.

Based on studies, PCA said that coco biodiesel is a clean burning alternative fuel which can be used in diesel engines without modification. The Department of Agriculture secretary Proceso Alcala said that the Philippines can save billions of pesos in imported petroleum if the National Biofuels Board approved the five per cent mix from the two per cent mandated biofuels blend.

The biofuel mix, however, will also entail higher pump prices as it is “market driven”,

nevertheless, a higher biofuel price would also mean high prices of coconuts which will add more income to farmers.

Forbes said intercropping on coconut plantations since a gap of at least 10 meters can be utilised in planting other crops. “It is such a waste if we cannot utilize these vacant areas where 27 per cent of our agricultural farms are planted with coconuts. These 3.4mn hectares of coconut plantation will be very lucrative if our farmers know how to optimize it,” he added.

Forbes has also expressed hope that the farmers would not just earn their revenues during harvest time but also be entrepreneurs by engaging in coconut ventures such as producing coconut oil and other viable products. “President Aquino’s dream is to see farmers take control or own the integrated processing plants and other feasible products.

We have a lot of emerging products like coco sugar and VCO which can really lift the farmers from the poverty threshold. And, I hope to see many viable products to come out soon,” he noted. n

By Gemma Delmo

Drought-resistant rice variety developed in Japan JAPANESE BIOTECHNOLOGISTS HAVE developed a rice plant with deeper roots that can sustain high yields in droughts that wipe out conventional rice crops.

It is the third breakthrough in new cereal strains in less than two years, boosting the quest to feed the world’s growing population at a time of worsening climate change.

A team from the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences described in Nature Genetics journal how they found a remarkable gene in a rice plant cultivated in the dry uplands of the Philippines.

This rice strain, also called cultivar, is called Kinandang Patong. Its big characteristic is roots that are deep and grow straight downwards, delving into parched soil for water, as opposed to root systems that are shallow and grow out sideways in typical water-rich paddy fields.

The gene for this, called Deep Rooting, dubbed DRO1, was spliced into a cultivar called IR64, a paddy rice plant that is grown around Asia.

The team then put the new plant through its paces, planting it and standard IR64 in upland fields in three kinds of conditions – no drought, moderate drought and severe drought.

Moderate drought reduced yield from IR64 to just 42 per cent of no-drought conditions. Severe drought destroyed it totally. But IR64 with the DRO1 gene was almost unaffected by moderate drought. In severe drought, yield fell but not catastrophically, by around 30 per cent.

The biggest characteristic of this rice variety is that its roots go deep and grow straight downwards, delving into parched soil for water

Yusaku Uga, who led this research, said, “Based on our results, this variety can be adapted to upland agriculture without irrigation.

“We are also evaluating the DRO1 performance under rain-fed lowland with the International Rice Research Institute. If we can get positive results in farmer’s fields, we hope to release the variety for Asian countries. We are also going to introduce the DRO1 into leading varieties in Latin America with CIAT.” In January last year, scientists in Britain and

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Japan said that they had developed a fast-track technique, called MutMat, that identified useful genetic variants, or mutations, in rice plants. They used it to derive a strain from Japan’s Hitomebore wild rice that is resistant to salinity, a boon for farmers whose fields have high salt content through irrigation.

In March last year, researchers in Australia said they had bred durum wheat with a salt-loving gene whose yields were up to 25 per cent greater than ordinary counterparts when grown on saline fields.

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Climate data to help predict crop yield With one-third of global cropland, temperature and soil moisture having strong relationships with each other, forecasting crop yield accurately may soon become a possibility GROUP OF researchers at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland have found that climate data can help predict crop failures several months before harvest.

Rice and wheat crop failures can be forecast using climate and crop models in some cases, according to the study. Scientists have found that in about one-third of global cropland, temperature and soil moisture have strong relationships to the yield of wheat and rice at harvest. For these two key crops, a computer model can predict crop failures three months in advance for about 20 per cent of global cropland, according to the study, published in Nature Climate Change.

Goddard’s Biospheric Sciences Laboratory official Molly Brown said, “You can estimate ultimate yields according to the climatic condition several months before. From the spring conditions and the pre-existing conditions, the pattern is almost set.”

The team of researchers wanted to examine the reliability and timeliness of crop failure forecasts in order for governments, insurers and others to plan accordingly.

The team, led by Toshichika Iizumi with the National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences in Tsukuba, Japan, created and tested a new crop model, incorporating temperature and precipitation forecasts and satellite observations from 1983 to 2006. They then examined how well the data predicted the crop yield or crop failure that actually occurred at the end of each season. For example, by looking at the temperature and soil moisture in June of a given year, they wanted to predict the success of a corn harvest in August and September.

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Wheat and rice The team studied four crops, corn, soybeans, wheat and rice, but the model proved most useful for wheat and rice. Crop failures in regions of some major wheat and rice exporters, such as Australia and Uruguay, could be predicted several months in advance, according to the study. The model also forecast some minor changes in crop yield, not just the devastating crop failures resulting from severe

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NASA’s climate data model for crop yield predictions has proved to be most successful for two key crops, rice and wheat

droughts or other weather extremes.

Co-author of the study and a professor with the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom Andy Challinor said, “The impact of climate extremes, the kind of events that have a large impact on global production, is more predictable than smaller variations in climate, but even variations of five per cent in yield were correctly simulated in the study for many parts of the globe.”

How much weather matters?

Economic factors, including agricultural technology, fertiliser, seeds and irrigation infrastructure, are key to determining how much a farmer can grow, Brown said. A farmer with expensive equipment and high-yielding varieties can efficiently plant seeds and grow more productive crops than a farmer planting low-yielding varieties, one seed at a time.

If economics set the bar for crop yield, other factors, including climate, can still cause variations that lead to good years and devastating years.

Brown said, “We’re trying to understand how much the weather matters. For particular crops,

in particular places, it makes a huge difference, especially with wheat. Our study gives us the tools we need to understand the sources of variability outside of the economic sphere.”

While climate’s role in crop yields and failures may seem intuitive, it’s difficult to demonstrate in part because of the overwhelming influence of social and economic factors, Brown said. But, integrating climate and economic predictions can lead to a better understanding of crop yields and failures, especially in a changing climate.

Brown added that if satellite data and climate models forecast a good season for rice before seeds are even planted, farmers or communities will be able to get loans to invest in technologies to take advantage of the good weather, while insurers can keep insurance premiums low.

Brown said, “If the forecast calls for a poor growing season, the loans would be smaller and insurance premiums larger. It could work as both a social safety net for agricultural communities.” n Source: NASA

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Nuclear agriculture programme develops 41 new crop varieties INDIA’S BHABHA ATOMIC Research Centre (BARC) has developed 41 new crop varieties under its nuclear agriculture programme.

These include 15 varieties of groundnut, eight of mungbean (greengram), five of urdad (blackgram), four of tur (pigeonpea), three of mustard, two of soyabean and one each of sunflower, chavali (cowpea), rice and jute.

BARC’s Nuclear Agriculture and Biotechnology Division head Suresh Bhagwat said, “If India has to be food selfreliant, it is imperative to embrace nuclear agriculture technology, particularly with agriculture land getting scarcer and food demand growing exponentially.

“Not many are aware that nuclear radiation-based technologies can contribute to this effort very significantly.” A major benefit of radiation effect on plants is enhancement of genetic variability, which can be harnessed to develop new crop varieties, including cereals, pulses and oilseeds with desirable characteries like increased yield, early maturity, salinity or water stress tolerance and disease resistance.

Nuclear agriculture technology can contribute to meeting food demand challenges in countries like India

Till date, the 41 crop varieties development at BARC, in collaboration with some agriculture universities, in different Indian states have been approved by the central government for commercial cultivation.

Bhagwat said BARC had also developed several protocols for micro-propagation of elite varieties of banana.

Chief of BARC’s Food Technology Division Arun Sharma said the key to sustainability

Enhanced sweet potatoes for battling hunger THE INTERNATIONAL POTATO Centre (CIP), a part of the CGIAR Consortium, has outlined plans to develop sustainable farming practices of pro-vitamin A sweet potatoes to increase food availability.

CIP functions as a nonprofit international CIP believes that pro-vitamin A sweet agricultural research potatoes will help eradicate poverty and organisation with a global give every human being the opportunity to lead a healthy life mandate to conduct research on potatoes, sweet potatoes, Andean root and tuber crops and sustainable management of natural resources.

The project will consist of field-based research to promote and adopt pro-vitamin A sweet potatoes.

CIP is currently scaling up its research efforts and development impacts in Asia and Africa in an effort to reach 15mn households with orangefleshed sweet potato (OFSP) by 2020.

A statement from the organisation said, “CIP plans to develop sustainable farming practices of pro-vitamin A sweet potato and promote the adoption and utilisation of the commodity.”

The organisation believes that the project will contribute to reducing poverty levels and also give people the opportunity to lead a healthy and productive life.

“Pro-vitamin A will help eradicate poverty, help countries to develop and prosper, and give every human being the opportunity to lead a healthy and productive life by ensuring the right to a safe, nutritious, and sufficient food supply,” said the statement.

was in ensuring proper food preservation and safety, for which reduction in post-harvest losses was of utmost importance.

Sharma said, “Radiation processing of agricultural produce offers a major technology alternative to chemical fumigants for this purpose.

“Treatment with gamma radiation or electron beam enables dis-infestation of insect pests in stored products, delay in ripening of fresh fruit, inhibition of sprouting in tubers and bulbs like potatoes and onions, destruction of food spoilage bacteria and elimination of parasites and pathogens in food.”

Since India is the world's second largest producer of fruits and vegetables, the immense potential of radiation processing for export needs to exploited for which BARC has developed irradiation protocols for several food products.

“Very encouraging signs are increased public acceptance of food irradiation and interest of private entrepreneurs in setting up radiation processing plants,” Sharma said.

New way of biofuel production LIMITED AVAILABILITY OF fossil fuels has stimulated a search for other energy resources and use of biofuels has increasingly become one of the possible alternatives.

Sugars derived from the grain of agricultural crops can be used to produce biofuel but these crops occupy fertile soils needed for food and feed production. Fast growing plants such as poplar, eucalyptus, or various grass residues such as corn stover and sugarcane bagasse do not compete and can be a sustainable source for biofuel.

An international collaboration of plant scientists from VIB and Ghent University (Belgium), the University of Dundee (UK), The James Hutton Institute (UK) and the University of Wisconsin (USA) has identified a new gene in the biosynthetic pathway of lignin, a major component of plant secondary cell walls that limits the conversion of biomass to energy.

Stanford University's Global Climate and Energy Project director Sally M Benson said in a report published in Science Express journal recently, “This discovery provides an alternative pathway for altering lignin in plants and has the potential to greatly increase the efficiency of energy crop conversion for biofuels. We have been so pleased to support this team of world leaders in lignin research and to see the highly successful outcome of these projects.”

A plant cell wall mainly consists of lignin and sugar molecules such as cellulose. Cellulose can be converted to glucose which can then be used in a classical fermentation process to produce alcohol, similar to beer or wine making. Lignin is a kind of cement that embeds the sugar molecules and thereby gives firmness to plants.

However, lignin severely reduces the accessibility of sugar molecules for biofuel production. The lignin cement has to be removed via an energy-consuming and environmentally unfriendly process. Plants with a lower amount of lignin or with lignin that is easier to break down can be a real benefit for biofuel and bioplastics production. The same holds true for the paper industry that uses the cellulose fibres to produce paper.

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New Holland presents upgraded tractor for Thailand’s rice sector NEW HOLLAND AGRICULTURE has launched its low horsepower range of products, the upgraded TC48R four-wheel drive tractor, for Thailand’s rice farming sector.

The compact size of the TC48R tractor is equipped to deliver a powerful performance.

The tractor is provided with new fenders and bigger tires to meet the demand of Thai customers. With a 47hp 4-cylinder diesel engine and 16x16 shuttle transmissions, this tractor will enable customers to work with a wide range of implements.

TC48R’s draft control lever makes life a little easier when plowing, sub-soiling or using other ground engaging implements by automatically raising the implement just enough to restore normal loading of the tractor for safer operations and extended life span of the tools.

Implements can be mounted to the three point hitch. The PTO features three speeds and is also equipped with an automatic stop feature when the implement rises from the ground.

Full hydraulic power is always available at the remote valves and lift linkage, but only as much as is needed. The variable displacement pump only works on demand, thus reducing fuel consumption.

The compact size of the TC48R tractor is equipped to deliver a powerful performance

This compact and solid model is the ideal companion for a wide range of farming tasks thanks to the powerful engine, matched with reliable transmissions, three PTO speeds and other features that make farming more efficient and easier. The seat and steering wheel can be adjusted to a comfortable and ergonomic position for better operations of the driver.

APAM, New Holland’s official distributor

New tractor series from Massey Ferguson

DuPont Pioneer’s mobile app for farmers DUPONT PIONEER HAS launched a mobile app that features three agronomy tools to help farmers with this season's management decisions. The Pioneer Field360 Tools app from DuPont Pioneer features the GDU Estimator, Precipitation Estimator, and Growth Stage Estimator.

DuPont Pioneer product manager Matt Snyder said, “Conveniently packaging DuPont Pioneer agronomy expertise into one mobile application that growers can use to make decisions anywhere they farm is one of the benefits of the new Pioneer Field360 Tools app.”

The paid app has improved usability, requiring one-time input of location, start date and comparative relative maturity (CRM).

“Farmers can easily navigate between the calculators within the Pioneer Field360 Tools app without re-entering data,” Snyder said.

This new app combines analysis tools and real-time data. Farmers can track multiple field scenarios, including progress of the crop with a growth stage estimator, view precipitation forecasts and daily precipitation, and calculate GDUs and key crop stages. The Pioneer Field360 Tools app can also estimate harvest dates for each Pioneer brand corn hybrid planted.

Part of the Pioneer Field360 services offering, this app can be located by searching Field360 in the App Store. The app will be upgraded with additional best-in-class agronomy tools as they are available. An Android version of the app will be available later in July in the Google Play Store.

Farmers can also go to Pioneer’s web portal to access the Pioneer Field360 Tools app and other Pioneer applications such as Pioneer Field360 Notes app and the Plantability app which have also been designed to aid cultivation activities.

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in Thailand, which has just inaugurated four new outlets in the first six months of this year, has further plans of extending its strong dealer network to offer a better service to its customers.

The new upgraded model featured prominently at the recent Isrmax Asia 2013, the International Sugar Rice Maize & Agriculture Expo held in Bangkok from 15 to 17 August 2013.

MASSEY FERGUSON HAS launched three new four-cylinder powered MF 5600 Series tractor models that are purpose-built to deliver exactly the right specification for the 110hp to 130hp sector.

The MF 5600 Series models are built to provide performance in the field and on the road, combined with the manoeuvrability, visibility and exclusive features that make them unrivalled loader tractors.

Loader-ready models come supplied with a factory-fitted sub-frame, as well as a wide range of novel features and controls to ease and enhance operation.

Powered by the latest AGCO POWER four cylinder engines, the new MF 5600 tractors are built on a new 2.55 metre wheelbase chassis, equipped with specifically designed Dyna-4 or Dyna-6 transmissions.

There is also a choice of essential or efficient cab specifications as well as a completely new exclusive front axle suspension option, designed and manufactured by Massey Ferguson.

With maximum powers of 110hp, 120hp and 130hp and weighing 4.8 tonnes, the new Massey Ferguson MF 5600 Series four cylinder models offer a distinct specification choice and are developed specifically to meet all customer requirements in this important power sector.

The engine powers of all the new tractors also overlap with three models in the MF 6600 Series, to provide further choice.

Massey Ferguson brand development manager Campbell Scott said, “The new MF 5600 Series are purpose-built for this power sector and application, offering uncompromising quality, specification and performance.

“The 110hp to 130hp bracket is expanding rapidly as customers need, and expect, a tractor with the specifications the MF 5600 Series offers.”

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Big Dutchman’s breeder management novelties BREEDER MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUE has undergone refinement with time and become more convenient for poultry farmers and safer for the birds.

Big Dutchman has recently launched two breeder management equipment that include a group laying nest and new-generation poultry cages.

The group laying nest ‘Relax’ is designed specially for broiler breeders. Equipped with two separate, easy-to-lift nest roofs, it significantly facilitates nest and egg belt inspection.

Another new feature is the egg belt with a three-point bearing design. Due to the increased share of perforated surface and the triangular shape of the holes, contact surfaces between the eggs and the egg belt are minimised. Eggs that roll off are slowed down gently,

The soft flooring of the poultry cage reduces the risk of breast blisters

which reduces the number of hair-cracked and dirty eggs.

‘Relax’ is made of high-quality, durable materials, increasing nest acceptance and improving nest hygiene. The smooth surfaces facilitate cleaning and reduce the bacteria load as well as insect infestation during

Plastic slat plate from Quality Equipment EQUIPMENT SPECIALISTS, QUALITY Equipment, has come up with a high density plastic slat plate, which can prove to be better than concrete slat panels that are usually prone to wear and costly to replace.

Slat plates launched by the company are simply placed over the Quality Equipment’s slat plate is easily worn area and are secured fixed and provides a simple solution to by stainless steel anchor worn slats bolts, either directly through the plate or via clips fixed around the edges.

Suitable for weaners, growers and finishers, the 15mm plates are generally supplied at 1m x 0.5m (3ft 3in x 1ft 7in) and slots can be cut to ensure a snug fit around equipment.

The product is priced at US$46.09 per plate, including fixings, they are suitable for areas too badly damaged or eroded for conventional repairs.

Larger plates can be supplied if required.

Quality Equipment director Graham Baker said, “With pig welfare rules tightening, piggeries are coming under increasing scrutiny, particularly slatted floors. We produced these panels in response to requests from customers and have already had a good feedback.”

Quality Equipment has sold large quantities of a stainless steel slat inert which it developed in 2012 as a result of new EU regulations on maximum slat gaps. The slat plate complements this product.

Relax is equipped with two separate roofs which facilitate the breeder management considerably

the grow-out. The system has been designed as a nearly screw-less connector system and can therefore be installed easily and rapidly.

The second Big Dutchman novelty for breeder management is a new generation of poultry cage developed specifically for

the reproduction of layer and broiler breeders by means of artificial insemination.

This development has made Big Dutchman one of the first suppliers of poultry equipment responding to the trend of using artificial insemination in hatching egg production.

Ceva adds new vaccine to its range CEVA HAS RECENTLY added the Cevac IBird, a live attenuated IB vaccine, to its portfolio of 16 new technology vaccines.

With this addition, infectious bronchitis can now be brought under control from the hatchery. The company’s efforts in 2012 had made possible to treat Newcastle and Gumboro with a single, combined dose of vaccines.

The vaccine, which is a yellowish white in colour, requires that all chickens on a site be vaccinated at the same time and within the same premises. The vaccine strain may spread to non-vaccinated chickens. Vaccinated chickens may excrete the vaccine strain for up to 28 days or longer following vaccination.

Poultry farmers should take care to avoid spread of the vaccine virus from vaccinated chickens to pheasants and turkeys.

Cevac IBird is intended to protect chickens against respiratory disease caused by variant strains of infectious bronchitis virus belonging to the 793/B group and should not be used as a replacement for other IBV vaccines.

Ceva said in a statement that it has 16 new technology vaccines registered in key countries, but innovation meant nothing, if it could not be applied in the field.

That is why, the company added, it has also invested in the provision of vaccination and handling equipment Desvac and Ecat and expert service programs (C.H.I.C.K Program) to ensure that poultry producers benefit from over 60 service managers working in 14 countries.

Ceva biology business unit head Arnaud Bourgeois commented, “We are delighted to be able to support the cause of vaccination and spreading awareness about the importance of it.

“I am very proud that we are also able to provide so many significant vaccination innovations to poultry producers. Combining excellence in scientific, industrial and market support is something we try to achieve each day and we must continue to work hard to drive further innovation in the future.”

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Mapping system to visualise the world of roots RTBMaps developed by a team of researchers can help in presenting a detailed picture of underground crops like cassava, potatoes or banana to aid and enhance production GRICULTURE PROFESSIONALS WILL soon be able to visualise the world of roots, tubers and bananas using a mapping system that provides knowledge of the global production zones.

Using 25 categories, RTBMaps can paint a complex picture of the world of roots from the plantain harvest zones to the mean temperature, from cassava to mealybug presence, or potatoes to food accessibility.

Associate researcher for the project Henry Juarez claims that the visual combinations for the map are extensive and complex.

He said, “It’s a powerful tool to share information and make it not only available to ourselves but also to scientists.

“There are specialists in our team with a GIS (Geographic Information Systems) background but there are a lot of scientists that do not have GIS background. For them, it simply depends on having a web address, a click to see the potato map, another click to see potato diseases.

“Through that simple exercise, they can visualise the vulnerability of the potato to that disease. That has a lot of impact. We’re already seeing scientists, decision makers and farmers participate because the information is available.”

The map brings together the research and brainstorming of scientists from four diverse agricultural institutions: the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Bioversity International, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and the International Potato Center, where Juarez is based.

The collaborative project utilises GIS and cloud technology to organise a mass of global information and shed light on the greatest areas of need.

Juarez explained, “It will make it easier to make decisions for scientists who don’t otherwise have this concept of spatiality.

“If you have 100,000 hectares in Peru at

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The map is equipped to provide information on production inconsistency and crop opportunities

The map brings together the research and brainstorming of scientists from four diverse agricultural institutions: the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, Bioversity International, the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture and the International Potato Center risk for a certain disease, you can think, ‘well, it’s 100,000 hectares.’ But if you see where they are, you can see where to place resources. You can decide, ‘in this more humid area of Peru, we can have greater impact.’”

Beyond disease, the map also reveals production inconsistency and crop opportunities.

The researched noted, “Using the map, we want to find where the production voids are.

We know what is produced and where in each zone and what the potential would be if there weren’t any limitations.”

Although the map went live just over a week ago, researchers already have plans to build on

its potential and expand its possibilities.

Juarez said, “We would like to have a lot more layers. Right now we’re at 25 and we hope to reach 100 or 200 more.

“We’re also creating a priority setting platform to see a combination of various factors to determine the greatest impact. Users can go to the page, pick the factors he or she wants and create a unique map. That will serve researchers to determine where the most poverty, the most disease or the most potatoes are. That will be available over the coming months.” n Source: FreshFruitPortal

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Annual Buyers’ Guide Section One - Listings by categories Section Two - List of suppliers Section Three - Contact details of agents in Asia PLEASE MENTION FAR EASTERN AGRICULTURE WHEN CONTACTING YOUR SUPPLIERS

Section One Sprayers, Knapsack

Exports

Egg Handling

GOIZPER GROUP - Goizper Spraying Business

Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

Hotraco Agri b.v

Animal Health

Sprayers, Rotary Atomizer

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

Feed

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

GOIZPER GROUP - Goizper Spraying Business

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

Evisceration, Portioning

Feeding Systems

Intraco Ltd. n.v

Marel Stork Poultry Processing

Sprayers, Tractor-Mounted

Technical Systems

Feeding Systems

Feed

Case IH

Health Products

Big Dutchman International GmbH

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

Sprayers, ULV

MIK International AG

Intraco Ltd. n.v

Schauer Agrotronic GmbH

Feeders

Cattle Exports Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

Feed

Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

Other

Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH ISL Animal Health Perstorp

Aquaculture Services Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

Computerization

Milking Equipment

GOIZPER GROUP - Goizper Spraying Business

MIK International AG

Impex Barneveld BV

Technical Systems

Big Dutchman International GmbH

Veterinary Equipment

Swingtec GmbH

Flooring

Impex Barneveld BV

ISL Animal Health

Spraying Accessories

SKA S.r.l.

Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

Technical Systems

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Watering Equipment

GOIZPER GROUP - Goizper Spraying Business

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG MIK International AG

Flooring

Fogging Equipment

Impex Barneveld BV

Tillage

SKA S.r.l.

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Case IH

Hatchery and Incubation Equipment

Health Products

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

Swingtec GmbH

Housing

Goat Farming

Intraco Ltd. n.v

MIK International AG

Layer Supplier

Laboratory Equipment

Institut de Sélection Animale (ISA)

Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

Medicators

Micronutrients

Impex Barneveld BV

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Mould Inhibitors

Nest Pads

Perstorp

Impex Barneveld BV

Non-Electrical Proportional Dispenser or Medicator

Chemicals Fertilizers Fertikal N.V. / Organic Fertilizers and Soil Conditioners

Minerals Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

Crops

Tractors Case IH New Holland

Feed

Technical Systems

Health Products Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

Housing Big Dutchman International GmbH

Additives

Medicators

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

Impex Barneveld BV

Perstorp

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Concentrates

Pest Control

Balers

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

Case IH

Intraco Ltd. n.v

New Holland

Feed mills

Ventilation & Control Equipment

Conveyors

Awila Anlagenbau GmbH

Hotraco Agri b.v

Technical Systems

DSL Systems Ltd.

Harvesters

Grinding/Pelleting/ Cooling

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Case IH New Holland

Horticultural Equipment Irrometer Co. Inc. Swingtec GmbH

Integrated Pest Management

Awila Anlagenbau GmbH

Mixing Awila Anlagenbau GmbH

Premixes Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A. Intraco Ltd. n.v

Swingtec GmbH

Supplements

Irrigation Equipment

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

Irrometer Co. Inc.

Vitamins

New Holland

Moisture Testing Irrometer Co. Inc.

Soil/Environment Testing Irrometer Co. Inc.

Sprayers, Hand GOIZPER GROUP - Goizper Spraying Business

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

Pigs Breeding Equipment

Swingtec GmbH

Nest Systems SKA S.r.l.

Poultry Genetics Institut de Sélection Animale (ISA)

TPI - Polytechniek b.v

Poultry Stock

Veterinary Equipment

Institut de Sélection Animale (ISA)

ISL Animal Health

Processing

Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

Marel Stork Poultry Processing

Watering Equipment

Slaughtering Equipment

Impex Barneveld BV

Marel Stork Poultry Processing

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Turnkey Operations

Poultry

SKA S.r.l.

Ventilation & Control Equipment

DSL Systems Ltd. Hotraco Agri b.v

Evaporative Cooling

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A.

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Production Control DSL Systems Ltd.

Rendering Equipment Haarslev Industries A/S

Sheep Farming MIK International AG

Silos Awila Anlagenbau GmbH

Veterinary Instruments Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

Cages

Hotraco Agri b.v

ISL Animal Health

Big Dutchman International GmbH

Ventilation

Drinking Equipment

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

TPI - Polytechniek b.v

Hotraco Agri b.v

Big Dutchman International GmbH

TPI - Polytechniek b.v

Technical Systems

Impex Barneveld BV

Veterinary Equipment

Water

Breeding Stock

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG

Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

Impex Barneveld BV

ISL Animal Health

Weighing Equipment

Institut de Sélection Animale (ISA)

SKA S.r.l.

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SUPPLIERS Section Two

Awila Anlagenbau GmbH Dillen 1 Lastrup 49688 Germany Tel: +49 4472 8920 Fax: +49 4472 892220 Web: www.awila.de E-mail: info@awila.de

Big Dutchman International GmbH PO Box 1163, Vechta 49360, Germany Tel: +49 4447 8010 Fax: +49 4447 801237 Web: www.bigdutchman.de E-mail: big@bigdutchman.de Agents: Australia - Australasian Agricultural Services (Pty) Ltd. Australia - Stockyard Industries

Bangladesh - AFS Enterprise China - Big Dutchman (Tianjin) Livestock Equipment Co. Ltd. China - Big Dutchman (Tianjin) Livestock Equipment Co. Ltd. Beijing India - Big Dutchman International / GmbH BD Agriculture India Pvt. Ltd. Indonesia - Aneng Gunawan Lim (BD-ML) Indonesia - PT BD Agriculture Indonesia Japan - Fuji Kasei Co. Ltd. Japan - Masahiro Sumiya Japan - Nakajima Seisakusha Co. Ltd. Japan - Tohzai Sangyo Boeki Inc. Korea - Ganong International Co. Ltd. Korea - Jeong Jin Soo Malaysia - BD Agriculture (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd New Zealand - Agrieze Ltd. New Zealand - Mike McNaught New Zealand - Steve Cadwallader Pakistan - Eastern Veterinary Services Philippines - Asia Giant Enterprise Singapore - Morgan Enterprise Sri Lanka - JK Tradelink Pvt. Ltd. Taiwan - Global Ace Trading Co. Taiwan - Mr. Bartholomew Lo, Siu-Man Thailand - BD Agriculture Thailand Ltd. Vietnam - P&N Agro Business Co. Ltd.

Brinsea Products Ltd.

Fertikal n.v / Organic Fertilizers and Soil Conditioners

Station Road, Sandford North Somerset, BS25 5RA United Kingdom Tel: +44 8452 260120 Fax: +44 1934 820250 Web: www.brinsea.co.uk E-mail: sales@brinsea.co.uk

Molenweg Haven 1938 Kallo, 9130 Belgium Tel: +32 3 5700183 Fax: +32 3 5758615 Web: www.fertikal.be E-mail: lieven.wouters@fertikal.be

Case IH CNH Services Thailand Ltd. 23rd Floor Asia Center 173 South Sathorn Road Thungmahamek Sathorn, Bangkok 10120 Thailand Tel: +66 2 6782786 Web: www.caseih.com E-mail: international@caseih.com / richard.bennett@cnh.com

GOIZPER GROUP - Goizper Spraying Business Barrio Antigua 4 C.P. 20577 - Antzuola Guipuzcoa 20577 Spain Tel: +34 943 786000 Fax: +34 943 766008 Web: www.goizper.com E-mail: goizper@goizper.com Goizper-Spraying division has been for more than 50 years, present on the market and it is a World-Wide Reference On The Manual Spraying Sector for different applications on the fields of gardening, agriculture, industry, vector control and home.

Compact Seeds and Clones S.A. PO Box 30-1000 San JosĂŠ Costa Rica USA Tel: +1 506 22841120 Fax: +1 506 22572667 Web: www.asd-cr.com E-mail: sales@asd-cr.com asdcrsales@gmail.com

We pursue the continuous innovation as our strategic goal. We research and innovate in our sprayers, accessories, nozzles with the commitment of offering quality, ergonomy, efficient and useful sprayers, adapted to the needs of the final user of our products.

Agents: Singapore - GOIZPER Spraying Asia Pte Ltd

DSL Systems Ltd. Adbolton Hall Aobolton Lane West Bridgford, Notts United Kingdom Tel: +44 115 9813700 Fax: +44 115 9813702 Web: www.dsl-systems.com E-mail: mail@dsl-systems.com Agents: Indonesia - PT Kaliber Mitra Sakti

Haarslev Industries A/S

S.R.L.

Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A. Via L. Einaudi 12 Loc. Bettolino Brandico (Bs) 25030 Italy Tel: +39 030 6864682/9973064 Fax: +39 030 6866560 Web: www.eurofeed.it E-mail: logistics@eurofeed.it Eurofeed Technologies S.p.A. is an Italian Company that produces and trades feed additives all over the world.

We are GMP+Certified. Eurofeed Technologies portfolio includes the following additives as Acidifiers, Antioxidants, Antimicrobials, Aromas, Mould Inhibitors, Mycotoxin Binders, Natural Diarrhea Preventions, Nutraceutical Feed Supplements, Pellet Binders, Trace Mineral Chelateds, Vegetables Protein Concentrate.

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Bogensevej 85 DK-5471 Sonderso Denmark Tel: +45 63 831100 Fax: +45 63 831120 Web: www.haarslev.com E-mail: info@haarslev.com Haarslev Industries is a dedicated process technology company, providing powerful solutions for the benefit of the global environment. We supply complete systems and equipment for the processing of animal by-products, fishmeal and fish oil, domestic waste, sewage sludge, bio fuels, bio-mass, DDGS and by-products from food production.

Other Office in Malaysia: Haarslev Industries PTE Ltd. 2A, Jalan Anggerik Vanilla W31/W, Kota Kemuning Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan, West Malaysia 40460 Tel: +60 87 423763 Fax: +60 87 419763 E-mail: info@haarslev.com Web: www.haarslev.com

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Henke-Sass, Wolf GmbH

Intraco Ltd. n.v

Keltenstraße 1 Tuttlingen 78532 Germany Tel: +49 7462 94660 Fax: +49 7462 94665000 Web: www.henkesasswolf.de E-mail:info@henkesasswolf.de Agents: India - National Meditek Indonesia - Pesona Scientific Korea - Yushin Corporation Phillippines - P & J Agricultural Trading Taiwan - Ennchih Co. Ltd.

Jordaenskaai 24 Antwerp, 2000 Belgium Tel: +32 3 2269850 Fax: +32 3 2269852 Web: www.intraco.be E-mail: intraco@intraco.be

Hotraco Agri b.v Stationsstraat 142 Hegelsom 5963 The Netherlands Tel: +31 77 3275020 Fax: +31 77 3275021 Web: www.hotraco.com E-mail: info@hotraco.com Agents: China - Beijing HMA New-Tech Co. Ltd. India - Polaris Equipment Ltd. Korea - JLFA Co. Korea - Myung Sung System Co. Ltd. Malaysia - Progress Agriculture Thailand - Systemate Co. Ltd.

Irrometer Co. Inc. PO Box 2424 Riverside, CA 92516 USA Tel: +1 951 6891701 Fax: +1 951 6893706 Web: www.irrometer.com E-mail: sales@irrometer.com Agents: China - Chongqing Enpro Tech and Trading Ltd. India - A/C Agro Instruments (P) Ltd.

poultry processing equipment, providing inline solutions for each process stage and every capacity level. The product range includes live bird supply, stunning, killing, scalding, de-feathering, evisceration, giblet harvesting, chilling, grading, cut-up, deboning, X-ray bone detection, portioning, production software and service contracts.

Other office in Asia: Marel Stork SE-Asia 97, Rama IX Soi 59, Rama IX Road Suanluang sub-district, Suanluang district Bangkok 10250 Thailand Tel: +66 84 7512203 Email: info.poultry@marel.com Berggarten 1 Siershahn 56427 Germany Tel: +49 2623 600800 Fax: +49 2623 600870 Web: www.mik-online.de E-mail: info@mik-online.de

New Holland CNH Services Thailand Ltd. 23rd Floor Asia Center 173 South Sathorn Road Thungmahamek Sathorn Bangkok 10120 Thailand Web: www.newholland.com E-mail: international@newholland.com richard.bennett@cnh.com

Impex Barneveld BV Harselaarseweg 129 The Netherlands Tel: +31 342 416641 Fax: +31 342 412826 Web: www.impex.nl E-mail: info@impex.nl Impex Barneveld BV is a pioneer and specialist in drinking equipment for poultry, pigs and livestock. Impex automatic AGRILAND® drinking systems originate from the need for efficient animal breeding automation and are perfected by our technical staff with more than 45 years of experience in the coordination of automation for poultry and pig management.

Institut de Sélection Animale (ISA) Villa ‘de Körver’ Spoorstraat 69 CK Boxmeer 5831 The Netherlands Tel: +31 48 5319111 Fax: +31 48 5319112 Web: www.isapoultry.com E-mail: info.isa@hendrix-genetics.com ISA is one of the world’s leading breeders of brown and white laying hens, which thrive in both conventional and alternative production systems and in different climatic conditions. Our mission is to contribute to profitable and sustainable egg production by improving the economic life of laying hens.

Agents: Indonesia - PT ISA Indonesia

Lubing Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG Lubingstrasse 6 Barnstorf 49406 Germany Tel: +49 5442 98790 Fax: +49 5442 987933 Web: www.lubing.com E-mail: info@lubing.com Ultramodern Drinking-, Conveyor- and Climate-Systems from Barnstorf, Germany: LUBING systems are complete solutions for all modern requirements in animal farming, but at the same time are modular in design so that they can be individually matched to customer wishes.

Agents: China - Lubing System Engineering (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. India - Lubing India Pvt. Ltd. Indonesia - PT. Charoen Pokphand Japan - Hytem Co. Ltd. Malaysia - Tong Seh Industries Supply Sdn Bhd Pakistan - Ample Trade Impex Thailand - KSP Equipment Co. Ltd. Vietnam - Dong A Material-Veterinary JSC

Saddlebow Road, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE34 3JA, United Kingdom Tel: +44 1553 817500 Fax: +44 1553 817501 Web: www.omex.co.uk E-mail: agrifluids@omex.com

MIK International AG

ISL Animal Health 13 Kaimiro Street Pukete Industrial Estate Hamilton 3200 New Zealand Tel: +64 7 8496018 Fax: +64 7 8491414 Web: www.islanimalhealth.com E-mail: sales@islanimalhealth.com Agents: Korea - P&C Korea

Omex Agrifluids Ltd.

Olmix Z.A. Du Haut du Bois Brehan 56580 France Tel: +33 297 388103 Fax: +33 297 388658 Web: www.olmix.com E-mail: lguillevic@olmix.com

Perstorp Industrieweg 8, NH Waspik, 5165 The Netherlands Tel: +31 41 6317700 Fax: +31 41 6316698 Web: www.perstorpfeed.com E-mail: info@perstorpfeed.com

Schauer Agrotronic GmbH Passauerstrasse 1 Prambachkirchen 4731 Austria Tel: +43 72 7723260 Fax: +43 72 77232622 Web: www.schauer-agrotronic.com E-mail: office@schauer-agrotronic.com Agents: China - Beijing Kingpeng Global Husbandry Technology Co. Ltd. China - GSI Group Shanghai Phillippines - Broad Science Phil. Corporation Taiwan - Broad Science Co. Ltd.

Schaumann Agri International GmbH An der Muhlenau 4, Pinneberg 25421, Germany Tel: +49 4101 2185300 Fax: +49 4101 2185399 Web: www.schaumann.info E-mail: info@schaumann-agri.com Agents: China - Schaumann Agri Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.

SEC 91 Simmons Industrial Place Dallas, Georgia, 30132 USA Tel: +1 770 4456085 Fax: +1 770 4439058 Web: www.simmonsengineeringcompany.com E-mail: info@simengco.com

Marel Stork Poultry Processing PO Box 118 AC Boxmeer 5830 The Netherlands Tel: +31 48 5586111 Fax: +31 48 5586222 Web: www.marel.com/poultry E-mail: info.poultry@marel.com Marel Stork Poultry Processing is the global supplier of

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Buyers’ Guide Agents: Indonesia - PT Inesco Estikakreasi Korea - Daeyoung GS Co. New Caledonia - Austral Import Papua New Guinea - Belltek Chemicals (Pty) Ltd. Philippines - Alog & Co. Inc. Republic of Maldives - Ilaa Maldives Pte. Ltd. Sri Lanka - De Soysa & Co. Ltd. Taiwan - Tsing Hua Environmental Protection Co. Ltd. Thailand - United Engineering & Agricultural (Thailand) Ltd. Vietnam - Thang Long Health Equipment & Material Joint Stock Co.

Swingtec GmbH PO Box 1322, Achener Weg 59 Isny im Allgaeu, 88307 Germany Tel: +49 75 627080 Fax: +49 75 62708111 Web: www.swingtec.de E-mail: info@swingtec.de

Technical Systems

Web:www.technicalsys.com E-mail:info@technicalsys.com Supplier of feed conveying equipment like auger spiral and feeder chain for the automated Poultry and Pig industry.

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Via Agosta 3 Sandrigo (Vicenza) 36066, Italy Tel: +39 0444 659700 Fax: +39 0444 659322 Web: www.ska.it E-mail: ska@ska.it Agents: Malaysia - SKA Asia Sdn Bhd

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TPI - Polytechniek b.v De Steenbok 24, ‘s-Hertogenbosch 5215ME The Netherlands Tel: +31 73 6569194 Fax: +31 73 6566933 Web: www.tpi-polytechniek.com E-mail: info@tpi-polytechniek.com

Ampere Street, Stikland Bellville Cape Town 7530 South Africa Tel:+27 21 9499191 Fax:+27 21 9499195

Unipoint AG Gewerbestrasse 2 Ossingen, 8475 Switzerland Tel: +41 52 3052041 Fax: +41 52 3052042 Web: www.unipoint.ch E-mail: info@unipoint.ch

Zagro Singapore Pte. Ltd. Zagro Global Hub 5 Woodlands Terrace 738430, Singapore Tel: +65 67591811 Fax: +65 67591855 Web: www.zagro.com E-mail: zsingapore@zagro.com sales@zagro.com

Section Three Australia Australasian Agricultural Services (Pty) Ltd. PO Box 2301 34 Millennium Place Wellington Point Queensland 4160 Tel: +61 73 3960166 Fax: +61 73 3960266 E-mail: peter@ ausagservices.com.au

Stockyard Industries King Street 54, Clifton Queensland, 4361 Tel: +61 7 46973344 Fax: +61 7 46973532 E-mail: marcusj@cefn.com.au

Bangladesh AFS Enterprise Apt. C5, House 74, Road 21 Block B Banani Dhaka, 1213 Tel: +880 2 8858404 Fax: +880 2 8815210/ 9858547 E-mail: wasusalam@hotmail.com

China Beijing HMA New-Tech Co. Ltd. Room 435 Guang Yaun Ma Beijing Tel: +86 10 68726736 Fax: +86 10 68703225

Beijing Kingpeng Global Husbandry Technology Co. Ltd. 7th Floor, Advanced Materia Building No. 7, Beijing 10094 Tel: +86 10 58711009 Fax:+86 10 58711003 Web: www.jpxm.com E-mail: ymyolanda_2009@ 126.com

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Big Dutchman (Tianjin) Livestock Equipment Co. Ltd.

Schaumann Agri Trading (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.

Shuang Yuan Road, No. 21 Yin He, Beichen Dist., Tianjin 300400 Tel: +86 22 26970158 Fax: +86 22 26970157 E-mail: bdchina@ bigdutchman.com

Room 2603 325 Tian Yao Qiao Road Gateway International Plaza Shanghai 200030 Tel: +86 21 33632585 Fax: +86 21 33632586 Web: www.schaumann.cn E-mail: info@schaumann.cn

Big Dutchman (Tianjin) Livestock Equipment Co. Ltd. - Beijing Beijing Branch Com 13/Fl Tower A #9, Wangjing Zhong Hvan Nan Road Chaoyang District Beijing 100102 Tel: +86 10 64761888 Fax: +86 10 64761999 E-mail: bdcnsales@ bigdutchman.com

Chongqing Enpro Tech and Trading Ltd. 10-11, 102#, Yuzhou Road Chongqing, 400042 Tel: +86 23 66100377 Fax: +86 23 68583267 Web: www.enpro168.com E-mail: enpro168@126.com

GSI Group Shanghai 6th Floor, Building 7, No. 51 Xinzhuan Road Shanghai, 201612 Tel: +86 21 61159777/6607 Fax:+86 21 61920880 Web: www.gsichina.com E-mail: jingcheng.shi@ gsichina.com

Lubing System Engineering (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. Song Ming Industrial Park Gongming Town Guangming District Shenzhen Guangdong Province, 518106 Tel: +86 755 27411888 Fax: +86 755 27411124 Web: www.lubcn.com E-mail: tjlim@lubing.cn

India A/C Agro Instruments (P) Ltd. 62/J/1 Maharaja Tagore Road Dhakuria Kolkata West Bengal, 700031 Tel: +91 33 24732151 Fax: +91 33 24733215 Web: www.aicagroinstrument.com E-mail: soilsearch_equipment@ vsnl.net

Big Dutchman International / GmbH BD Agriculture India Pvt. Ltd. BD Agriculture India Pvt. Ltd. No. 8-2-L/26/A MLA Colony Road No 12 Banjara Hills Hyderbad Andra Pradesh 500034 Tel: +91 40 23551192 Fax: +91 40 23551183 E-mail: pdye@bigdutchman.com bdindia@bigdutchman.com

Lubing India Pvt. Ltd. 271/P/B Ingawale Patil Estate Bhugaon Paud Road Tal Mulshi, Pune Maharashtra 411042 Tel: +91 20 2952404 Fax: +91 20 67900200 Web: www.lubingindia.com E-mail: info@lubingindia.com

National Meditek

PT ISA Indonesia

B2 Jhilmil DSIDC Industrial Complex Jhilmil Delhi Tel: +91 11 22094246 Fax: +91 11 22124346 Web: www.nationalmeditek.com E-mail: natomed@sify.com

Plaza 3 Pondok Indah JL TB Simatupang Blok F/7 Jakarta, 12310 Tel: +62 21 7661515 Fax: +62 21 7661616 Web: www.isapoultry.com E-mail: info.isa@ hendrix-genetics.com

Polaris Equipment Ltd. S R Purandare 32 Ashok Nagar Tel: +91 20 25537702 Fax: +91 20 25582732

Indonesia

PT Kaliber Mitra Sakti Graha Anggrak Mas C38 Tel: +62 31 70966577 Fax: +62 31 8051726 Web: www.kaliber.co.id E-mail: jjh.lemmen@gmail.com

Aneng Gunawan Lim (BD-ML)

PT. Charoen Pokphand

Taman Palem Lestari Jakarta Block D 5A No. 27, 11730 Tel: +62 21 54391968 Fax: +62 21 54399284 E-mail: alim@bigdutchman.com

Jl. Raya Serang Km. 30 Balaraja, Tangerang, 15610 Tel: +62 21 64701200 Fax: +62 21 64700968 Web: www.lubing.com E-mail: lasma.siagian@cp.co.id

Pesona Scientific Komplek Kopo Mas Regency Block 8-j, 40225 Bandung Tel: +62 22 5430583 Fax: +62 22 5430314 E-mail: cvpesona@ bdg.centrin.net.id

PT BD Agriculture Indonesia Pergudangan Prima Center 2 Unit No. 9 Jl.Pool PPD Pesing Poglar Jakarta Barat 11710 Tel: +62 21 29031020/ 29031021 Fax: +62 21 29030955 E-mail: bdai@bigdutchman.com

Japan Fuji Kasei Co. Ltd. Shiguma Industrial Park 1004-5 Ariko-Cho Kumamoto Pref Kumamoto-City 861-5501 Tel: +81 96 2453711 Fax: +81 96 2453770 E-mail: fuji-east@nifty.com

Hytem Co. Ltd. 2-10 Techno Plaza Kakamigahara City Gifu Prefecture, 509-0109 Tel: +81 583 850505 Fax: +81 583 851230 Web: www.hytem.com E-mail: info@hytem.com

PT Inesco Estikakreasi

Masahiro Sumiya

Komplek Ruko Jl. Letjen Suprapto No. 121 Blok B-1/3A Jakarta Pusat Tel: +62 21 4249096 Fax: +62 21 4222335 E-mail: inesco@centrin.net.id

5-18-3-1402 Minamikasai Edogawa - Ku, Tokyo 1340085 Tel: +81 3 59397061 Fax: +81 3 59397061 E-mail: sumiya@bigdutchman.com

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Buyers’ Guide xxx Nakajima Seisakusha Co. Ltd. 33 Ai Shinonoi Nagano Pref Nagawo City 388-8004 Tel: +81 26 2921203 Fax: +81 26 2931611 E-mail: info@nakamatic.co.jp

Tohzai Sangyo Boeki Inc. 2-Chome, Yushima 17-8 Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0034 Tel: +81 3 3815 4491 Fax: +81 3 38154456 Web: www.tohzai-sangyo.co.jp E-mail: it@tohzai-sangyo.co.jp

Korea

Malaysia BD Agriculture (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd No. 20 Lorong Keluli 1B Bukit Raja Seksyen 7 Shah Alam Selangor Darul Ehsan 40000 Tel: +60 3 33615555 Fax: +60 3 33422866 E-mail: bdasia@bigdutchman.com

Progress Agriculture Lat 5016 Batur Yongfeng, Johar Tel: +60 74678832 Fax: +60 74678428

Daeyoung GS Co.

SKA Asia Sdn Bhd

980-4, Geumsan-ri Waegwan-eup Chilgok-gun Gyoungbuk Tel: +82 54 9731021 Fax: +82 54 9731023 E-mail: lyu@dygs.co.kr

Kuala Lumpur Tel: +60 3 126239561 Web: www.ska.it E-mail: rizzolino@ska.it

Ganong International Co. Ltd. PO Box 465816 349-1 Cheonhyun Dong Hanam-shi Kyunggi-do 465816 Tel: +82 2 34366790 Fax: +82 2 34366792/ 317926305 Web: www.ganongbio.co.kr E-mail: cwahn@ganongbio.co.kr starmanpark@hanafos.com

Jeong Jin Soo 486-18 Ui-green villa 6-202 Ssangmun-dong Seoul Dobong-Ku Tel: +82 10 52174518 E-mail: jeong@bigdutchman.com

JLFA Co. Jinsa-ri, Juen-Chungsul Ansung-si Gongdo-up Gyunggi-do Tel: +82 11 3298987 Fax: +82 31 6295317 E-mail: msagro_3@hotmail.com

Myung Sung System Co. Ltd. 43-3 Jinan-dong Gyeonggi-Do Tel: +82 31 2357745 Fax: +82 31 2357819

P&C Korea 3rd Floor, Shin Ah B/D 89-8 Moonjung-Dong Songpa-Gu Seoul, 130200 Tel: +82 2 4094608 Fax: +82 2 4094522 E-mail: pnckorea@pnckorea.biz

Yushin Corporation 7F, 751 Bldg 203 Nonhyon-Dong Kangnam-Ku, 135-010, Seoul Tel: +82 2 5682525 Fax: +82 2 5693113 E-mail: ryushin@netsgo.com

Tong Seh Industries Supply Sdn Bhd Lot 780 Block A Jalan Sg. Putus Off Jalan Kapar 3 3/4 Miles Klang Selangor 42100 Tel: +60 3 32916958 Fax: +60 3 32915198 Web: www.tongseh.com.my E-mail: enquiry@tongseh.po.my

New Caledonia Austral Import 24, Rue Reaumur Ducos Noumea Cedex Tel: +687 276459/287270 Fax: +687 284649 E-mail: fcouarch@ australimport.nc

New Zealand Agrieze Ltd. 4, Ranfurly Street Otorohanga 3900 Tel: +64 7 8738900 Fax: +64 7 8738905 E-mail: agrieze.co.nz johnm@agrieze.co.nz

Mike McNaught 86a Hastings Road North Shore City Mairaugi Bay Auckland 0630 Tel: +64 2 1893333 E-mail: mikemc@ bigdutchman.com

Steve Cadwallader 43 McCallum Drive Warkworth RD 2 Sandspit Tel: +64 9 4223476 Fax: +64 9 4223475 E-mail: scadwallader@ bigdutchman.com

Pakistan Ample Trade Impex Office 3-4, 2nd Floor, Sarjah Centre 62 - Shadman Market, Lahore Tel: +92 42 7584400 Fax: +92 42 7532102 Web: www.lubing.com E-mail: ample@nexlinx.net.pk

Eastern Veterinary Services 7, 2nd Floor Allied Plaza, Chandi Chowk Murree Road Rawalpindi Punjab 46000 Tel: +92 51 4421771 Fax: +92 51 4421776 E-mail: estrnbio@dsl.net.pk

Papua New Guinea Belltek Chemicals (Pty) Ltd. PO Box 2358 Boroko Tel: +675 3257855 Fax: +675 3250949/ 2777/7861 E-mail: cnunez@belltek.com.pg

Philippines Alog & Co. Inc. Unit 301 Alabang Business Tower 1216 Acacia Ave Madrigal Business Park Ayala Alabang Muntinlupa 1780 Tel: +63 2 4789675 Fax: +63 2 4783878 Web: www.aloginc.com E-mail: sales@aloginc.net

Asia Giant Enterprise Unit 403 Goldhill Tower Greenhills, San Juan Metro Manila 1500 Tel: +63 2 7236347 Fax: +63 2 7253942 E-mail: bengo@asiagiantgroup.com

Broad Science Phil.

Corporation Ortigas Center, Passig City Manila Tel: +63 2 6331876 Fax:+63 2 6331339 E-mail: mingley_trades_ charlie@yahoo.com

P & J Agricultural Trading 184, St. Antonio Avenue Pasig City, Metro Manila Tel: +63 2 6410053 Fax: +63 2 6410054 E-mail: bobby@p-and-j.com.ph

Republic of Maldives Ilaa Maldives Pte. Ltd. Fasmeeru Building 3rd Floor Male Tel: +960 315514/315480 Fax: +960 310702/315482 Web: www.ilaamaldives.com E-mail: sales@ilaamaldives.com

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Singapore GOIZPER Spraying Asia Pte Ltd 194 Pandan Loop # 04-28 Pantech Business Hub 128383 Tel: +65 8721618 Fax: +65 8722628 E-mail: stephen@ goizperasia.com

Morgan Enterprise PO Box 0815, Bedok Centre Singapore, 914614 Tel: +65 7861218/ Fax: +65 7861489 E-mail: tanchinleong2001@ yahoo.com.sg

Sri Lanka De Soysa & Co. Ltd. PO Box 207 Colombo Tel: +94 1 684901/902/903 Fax: +94 1 684905 E-mail: desoysac@sri.lanka.net

JK Tradelink Pvt. Ltd. No. 44, Thalawathugoda Road Pitakotte, Colombo Tel: +94 1 12878243 Fax: +94 1 12774280 E-mail: bhagya@jktradelink.com

Taiwan Broad Science Co. Ltd. No. 16, Kejia Road Douliu City Yunlin, 640 Tel: +886 5 5511822 Fax: +886 5 5511833 E-mail: jackyscchang@ yahoo.com.tw

Thailand BD Agriculture Thailand Ltd. Block F7 & F8 41/76-77 Moo 6 Bangna Trad Rd. Km. 16.5 Bangch Bangplee Samutprakarn 10540 Tel: +66 2 3496531 Fax: +66 2 3496535 Web: www.bigdutchman.co.th E-mail: bdt@bigdutchman.com

KSP Equipment Co. Ltd. 51/845 Moo 3 Tumbon Lamsai Amphoe Wang Noi Pranakhonsi Ayuttaya 13170 Tel: +66 2 8176410 Fax: +66 2 8176439 Web: www.lubing.com E-mail: kannika@cpf.co.th

Systemate Co. Ltd. 26/47 MOO 9 Soi Yuyen Tharank Bangkhen Tel: +66 2 9438359 Fax: +66 2 9437139 Web: www.systemate.co.th E-mail: thavorno@systemate.co.th

United Engineering & Agricultural (Thailand) Ltd. Part. 20/6 Boon-Poon-Sang T. Bangsrimuang A. Muan Nonthaburi Tel: +66 2 24474681/87/88 Fax: +66 2 28816480 E-mail: ueasaha@yahoo.co.th

Ennchih Co. Ltd. No.310 Chung Shan S. Rd. Taoyuan Hsien Tel: +886 34 758168 Fax: +886 34 753803 E-mail: ennchih3@ ms6.hinet.net

Global Ace Trading Co. 11F-1 No. 239 1 Hsin 1st Rd Kaohsiung Tel: +886 7 3335481 Fax: +886 7 3314190 E-mail: e0904@ms10.hinet.net simon9@ms23hinet.net

Mr. Bartholomew Lo, Siu-Man #50, Floor 8-1 Chung Ching 1 Street Jen-Te Shiang -717 Tainan Hsien Tel: +88 69 39375876 Fax: +88 66 2709332 E-mail: bamy55@ms16.hinet.net

Tsing Hua Environmental Protection Co. Ltd. 4F No. 2, Lane 60, Taipei Tel: +886 2 25320777 Fax: +886 2 25329630 Web: www.pestcontrol.com.tw E-mail: jackson.chen@pestcontrol.com.tw

Vietnam Dong A MaterialVeterinary JSC 62, Ho Tung Mau Caudien Tuliem Hanoi Tel: +84 4 37632583 Fax: +84 4 37632602 Web: www.lubing.com E-mail: dmvjsc@fpt.vn

P&N Agro Business Co. Ltd. 798 Tnong Sa Steet Ward 14 District 3 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam Tel: +84 8 8465765 Fax: +84 8 9350687 E-mail: pcvan@ pnagrobusiness.com agribusiness@4cm.vnn.vn

Thang Long Health Equipment & Material Joint Stock Co. Thamed JSC Nguyen Hong Dong Da District Hanoi Tel: +84 4 66724417 Fax: +84 4 62510820 E-mail: thamed@vnn.vn

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