Vietnamese Dairy Crisis Needs Intervention
VIET NAM - As the global dairy industry booms, Viet Nam is being left behind - with the high cost of feed and the low retail prices for milk bringing the industry to a halt.

Risk of Dairy Bankruptcy in HCM City
HCM CITY, VIET NAM — Thousands of dairy farmers are selling fresh milk to processing plants at prices as low as VND 2,000-2,500 per kilo, about half the price set by the HCM City’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Breeders Encumbered by Epidemics and Disasters
VIET NAM - Epidemics, natural disasters and increasing prices of feed have hindered the animal breeding sector’s growth rate this year, which failed to reach the target of 8-10 per cent set by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

No Compensation without Vaccination
VIET NAM - The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has asked local authorities to vaccinate all cattle and poultry against regulated diseases.

Feed Companies in Trouble
VIET NAM - Up to 40 feed companies have ceased trading so far this year as they struggle with imports and unfavorable exchange rates.

Culled Animal Households Can Defer Debt Payments
VIET NAM – Any animal breeding households whose poultry and cattle are culled due to the diseases are allowed to defer their payment of debts, declared the Governor of the State Bank in a recent official document.

Dairy Vietnam Project Attracts New Members
VIETNAM - Traditionally milk has not featured in the diet of Asians but things are changing. This struck a cord with Stuart Lumb when on a recent visit to Ho Chi Minh City.

Domesticated Storks Kill Flies in Vietnam
VIETNAM - Animal farmers in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Tien Giang are taking an environmentally-friendly approach to eradicating flies. They are raising storks.

Compensation Due to Vietnamese Livestock Owners
VIET NAM - Raisers of poultry and cattle which have been culled to prevent the spread of such diseases as bird flu, foot-and-mouth and "blue ear," are to receive state compensation equal to 70 percent of the selling price of the culled animals.

Phat Maintains Fight Against FMD
VIETNAM - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat told a World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)’s meeting in Hanoi that the drastic efforts they have implemented to bring Foot and Mouth Disease under control will continue.

Viet Nam, Israel Co-operate on High-Tech Dairy Project
VIET NAM - Representatives from HCM City and Israel on Monday inked a memorandum of understanding on a dairy cow project in the city.

Milk Price-Hike Helps Revitalise Dairy Industry
VIET NAM - Recent increases in milk prices may be encouraging more farmers to raise dairy cows, although the volatile nature of the dairy industry still poses risks, especially to small households

MoF Considering Lowering Tax On Milk Imports
VIET NAM - Truong Chi Trung, Deputy Minister of Finance, said that the ministry would release decisions on lowering import tax rates on several kinds of materials and finished products, including dairy products, in an effort to raise the supplies on the...

Spending billions of dollars to carry coal to Newcastle
VIET NAM - Though an agricultural country, each year Vietnam spends billions of US dollars to import materials to process animal feed. Since early June 2007, animal feed producing companies have been increasing the prices of animal feed by several thousands...

New foot-and-mouth virus stalks cattle in central Vietnam
VIET NAM - A new foot-and-mouth virus type, Asia 1, has infected at least 650 cows, buffaloes, pigs and goats in the central province of Quang Tri.

Many May Try To “Milk” Cows For Profit: MARD
VIET NAM - Hoang Kim Giao, Deputy Director of the Animal Husbandry Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD), warned that the current milk price increase might lead to massive cow farming.

Vietnam develops plan to streamline breeding farms
VIETNAM - is mapping out a master plan to govern practices on breeding farms, to be completed by 2008, in an effort to upgrade output and product quality, agricultural officials said at a meeting Tuesday.

VND20mil punishment for using growth-stimulating hormone
VIET NAM - Several companies in Vietnam have been found as adding the prohibited growth-stimulating hormones into foodstuff for cattle.

Global trends sour local milk prices
HANOI - The retail price of milk continues to climb, according to reports from supermarkets and other retail and wholesale outlets in both Ha Noi and HCM City, despite a reduction in import tariffs made in line with the nation’s commitments to the WT...

Breeding programmes ill prepped for WTO entry
VIETNAM - Viet Nam’s breeding industry must overcome high production prices and unstable quality if it is to develop as the country joins the World Trade Organisation, according to industry official Nguyen Dang Vang.