Topigs Philippines and QJJ Group build genetics base
25 May 2012 - Topigs Philippines chartered 1164 GGP and GP pig breeders for QJJ Farm located in the main pig producing province of Luzon, Philippines.
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Russia allocates funds to fight ASF and FMD
24 May 2012 - To fight African Swine Fever(ASF), Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Siberian plague in 2012, the Russian government will allocate 2.6 billion rubles (US$ 870 mln) from the federal budget, the Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Elena Skrynnik said at a recent meeting -‘Preparedness for emergency prevention of an infectious nature.’
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Importing countries to ban Russian feed grains
23 May 2012 - “Importing countries may prohibit the supply of feed grain from Russia due to the active spread of African Swine Fever (ASF), which reached the central part of Russia,” according to Deputy Head of Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary (Rosselkhoznadzor) Nikolai Vlasov, in St. Petersburg on Monday.
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China: Restaurant scraps being used as pig feed
23 May 2012 - Many of Beijing’s restaurants are ignoring government guidelines on the disposal of food scraps and instead mixing it with other rubbish and selling it to private people as pig feed.
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Latvia/ Estonia: Pork producers suffer losses due to Russian pork ban
23 May 2012 - Pork producers in Latvia and Estonia are suffering serious losses because of the ban on pork exports to Russia.
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Norwegian firm plans major expansion in Russian pork market
22 May 2012 - Norwegian company RBPI (Russia Baltic Pork Invest) Group has started implementing an aggressive expansion in the Russian pork market. Read more >>
Russia may ban import of breeding pigs from Denmark
22 May 2012 - Rosselkhoznadzor is considering a complete ban on the import of breeding pigs from Denmark, which currently is one of the main suppliers of such pigs in Russia, according to a recent interview of the press secretary of Rosselkhoznadzo, Alexei Alekseenko.
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Price of pork in China expected to skyrocket
18 May 2012 - The price of pork in China will see an increase of about 20% in June and July according to predictions. Read more >>
IPVS 2012 Mobile Web launched for upcoming Jeju congress
18 May 2012 - The upcoming International Pig Veterinary Congress in Jeju in South Korea offers a new mobile app to make life of all delegates simple and overseeable. Read more >>
Marketing manager joins AB Vista in Asia
18 May 2012 - AB Vista’s Asia Pacific team has welcomed a new marketing and customer support manager on board in Singapore.
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Pulse NeedleFree swine vaccination available in Japan
18 May 2012 - Pulse NeedleFree Systems, a supplier of needle-free injection solutions to the animal health industry, has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with I.P. Tsusho for the Japanese swine market.
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China’s Tianli Agritech in Q1: Revenue increase of 32%
18 May 2012 - Tianli Agritech, a producer of breeder and market hogs, and retailer of pork products, headquartered in Wuhan City, China, reported a 32% revenue increase for the first quarter of 2012. Read more >>
Vet services cannot eliminate ASF outbreak near Moscow
17 May 2012 - Russian veterinarians have indicated that they are unable to eliminate the infection source for African Swine Fever in the Leninsky district of the Tula region, registered early May. Read more >>
Vietnam still under PRRS attack
15 May 2012 - There have been reports of new outbreaks of Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) in the northern provinces of Vietnam. The provinces affected with the outbreak now are Bac Ninh and Lao Cai.
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African Swine Fever discovered in Novgorod area
14 May 2012 - African Swine Fever virus of last week, was firstly recorded in the Novgorod region, stated representatives of Rosselkhoznadzor.
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India: Pig problem on airport runways
11 May 2012 - An Indian pilot intending to land at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport quickly aborted the sequence. He spotted a pig on the runway.
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Zhongpin: 2012 Q1 - Higher revenues and lower net income
11 May 2012 - Zhongpin Inc., a meat and food processing company in China reported higher sales revenues and lower net income for the three months ended March 31, 2012 compared with the first quarter 2011.
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China: US produced pork quarantined due to ractopamine
10 May 2012 - China's quarantine bureau has rejected a 103.5 tonne US pork consignment after standard tests on the frozen meat showed positive results for the banned drug ractopamine, Reuters reports. Read more >>
New Japfa-Hypor jv to build 700 sow breeding unit
10 May 2012 - Vietnam's animal feed producer Japfa Comfeed Long An and swine genetics company Hypor have finalised their joint venture at the end of April. A 700 sow high health pig breeding unit will be established in Vietnam. Read more >>
Russia: Outbreaks of ASF continue, even near Moscow
07 May 2012 - Early May, during routine inspections, specialists of the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Rosselkhoznadzor, found 13 carcasses of dead wild boars in the Tula. The boars had died from African Swine Fever. Read more >>
