Myanmar detected abnormal chicken deaths in poultry farms in 2012 and dead chickens were traded without permission from authorities, an official from the epidemiology section of the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBVD) told Eleven Media Group.

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Veterinarians will routinely inspect cattle on ranches across Burma to ensure meat is disease free and meets exports standards, according to Mizzima.

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The worst drought in more than 50 years that is affecting large parts of the United States is expected to reduce the nation’s corn output by about US$40 billion, according to the government and analysts.

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Charoen Pokphand Foods (CPF) set to invest US$550 million in Myanmar to develop agriculture and livestock projects.

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YANGON Region’s poultry industry is in a flutter as a result of oversupply, which is depressing prices to dangerous levels for farmers, the chairman of the Myanmar Livestock Federation said last week.

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Blue ear disease (Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome; PRRS) spread across the country for about six months, according to the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department, says a Chinese source.

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The veterinary authority sent Follow Up Report No. 1 dated 29 July to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

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Reports state that PRRS is making its way through Myanmar, having reached the Irrawaddy region and Mon State in the south east of the country.

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The PRRS virus continues to spread, reports Mizzima. It has now reached the southern Irrawaddy Region and into Mon State in southeast Burma.

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Several sources in Myanmar indicate that an unidentified bacterial pig illness has ravaged hundreds of pigs across the country, where PRRS has also been prevalent for some months now.

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Burmese government health officials are investigating the cause of death among pigs in Rangoon, according to Dr Soe Win, head of the Rangoon Region Animal Husbandry and Veterinarian Department.

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The Naypyitaw District Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department is educating the public about the disease which causes reproductive failure in breeding stock and respiratory tract illness in pigs.

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The veterinary authority sent Follow Up Report No. 4 dated 23 March to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

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The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) received an immediate notification on Friday, 4 March. The outbreak was initially observed on 15 February and confirmed on 28 February.

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Avian influenza (H5N1) has struck Myanmar's northwestern region of Sagaing with two poultry farms detecting the disease in the region, a local weekly reported Wednesday.

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The authorities sent Follow Up Report No. 2 dated 4 February to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE). The report describes one new outbreak of HPAI, which started on 26 January 2011 at a farm at Bomya Quarter in Tantse in the region of Sagaing.

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The authorities sent an Immediate Notification dated 18 January to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

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The country's veterinary authorities sent follow-up reported no.3 dated 21 June 2010 to the OIE. According to the report, no new incidents of bird flu have occured in the recent past. The outbreak first started on 19 February at Mingalardon in the Yangon region.

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The veterinary authority has sent Follow Up Report No. 1 dated 22 February to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE)

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Bird flu H5N1 has re-struck Myanmar with one case occurring in Yangon's Mayangong township in the beginning of this month, according to a statement of the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBVD) Saturday, Xinhua News Agency informed

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Opium cultivation in Myanmar is increasing rapidly in areas under the control of the military government, an ethnic minority organization said Tuesday

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According to Myanmar Times, the plan is to establish cold climate fish farms in the country’s northernmost Kachin State

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The fisheries industry is seeking to do direct trade with the Middle East. They are working to cut out the middle men when selling Rohu to the Middle Eastern market, a Myanmar Fishery Products Processors and Exporters Association (MPEA) official said last week. Myanmar is also the

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Fifteen fisheries officials from the Department of Fisheries and Myanmar Fisheries Federation (MFF) will depart on a month-long study tour to Vietnam that will run from 10 November to 12 December. The focus of the

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As part of an ongoing exchange programme between India and Burma, a 15-member delegation from Burma’s fisheries department wrapped up an eight-day tour of India studying the remarkable aquaculture development in the country. The Burmese delegation visited the Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture (CIFA) in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, and Kolleru Lake in Andhra

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The Myanmar health authorities have confirmed that the recent death of nine pigs in a pig farm in a Yangon's suburban township was due to food poison and not because of swine flu, the local weekly 7-Day News reported Wednesday. According to examination of the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department, the nine pigs bred in the South Okkalapa township died of the food poison on June 28 for being fed with littered

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A three-year Italian-funded FAO programme to improve the long-term food security of 32,000 poor fishing and farming families in Myanmar has been agreed, FAO said today

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