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13:14, March 11, 2008 |
Vietnam plans to stamp out foot-and-mouth disease by 2010 with total investment of 587 billion Vietnamese dong (36.7 million U.S. dollars) slated for the 2006-2010 period, the People's Army newspaper reported Tuesday.
Vietnam's animal husbandry industry accounts for 22 percent of total production value of its agriculture, the newspaper quoted Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat as saying.
The country currently has some 11 million buffalos, bulls and cows, and around 26 million pigs.
Officials from the World Organization for Animal Health and some Southeast Asian countries met in Vietnam Monday to share experience and discuss ways of batting foot-and-mouth disease in the region. They said the disease can be eliminated worldwide by 2020.
Source: Xinhua
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