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Int’l conference on animal production, environment held

Can Tho University and the Animal Husbandry Association of Vietnam (AHAV) are organising the second international conference on animal production and environment in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on September 18-19.
Int’l conference on animal production, environment held ảnh 1Prof. Paul Oliver at the event (Photo: VNA)
Can Tho (VNA) – Can Tho University and theAnimal Husbandry Association of Vietnam (AHAV) are organising the secondinternational conference on animal production and environment in the MekongDelta city of Can Tho on September 18-19.

The event aimed to shareorientations and strategies on animal husbandry, veterinary medicine andenvironment and form networking among institutes, schools, agencies andbusinesses to step up research and training.

Speaking at the event, NguyenVan Duc from AHAV forecast that agriculture will still play a crucial role inexports in the coming years with a total export value of around 42.2 billionUSD.

He called for strengtheningmanagement from the central to local level to help farming households and businessesadopt modern technologies, and effectively controlling epidemics on animals.

Prof. Paul Oliver from the USorganisation, Empowering the Poor through Waste Transformation (EPWT), presentedways to transform waste into useful resources.

Domestic and foreign experts alsointroduced a number of studies on the combination of animal farming andenvironment protection, such as the use of wastewater from biogas vault toimprove the quality of fish ponds on alkaline soil in the Mekong Delta, and theuse of biotechnology in addressing environment issues, among others./.
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