Animal protein businesses from many countries meet in the first trimester of the year at VIV Asia, the No.1 international trade show from Feed to Food for Asia. VIV Asia celebrated its 33rd Anniversary with its biggest edition ever.  The trade show began at 13 March 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand....

by Dr. Steven McOrist, Scolexia P/L consultancy group - Australia, Hong Kong, Philippines smcorist@scolexia.com.auMany pig farm systems across China and east Asia continue to expand, with more breeding pigs and improved litter sizes. This inevitably leads to higher numbers of piglets arriving...

The necessity of early feeding for future-proof poultry production Slowly but surely, hatcheries and integrations are embracing early feeding as a mean to make their profitability in poultry production future-proof. Since the early 90’s a lot of studies have been conducted, revealing early feeding...

White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) is a major shrimp pathogen, present in most of the producing regions and causing considerable economic losses to farmers. A new feed solution however showed strong reduction in mortality and improvement of growth in moderate WSSV pressure. White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV)...

by VIV reporters Even in the recent past, the Asia-wide market for processed foods of any kind was seen as relatively small. But a global analysis of meat processing equipment sales by USA-based Allied Market Research has rated the Asia-Pacific region in third place worldwide on annual value in 2018,...

Bangladesh is known as a poor country. Yet the times are changing. Economic growth accounted for about 6 percent annually in the past years. As a result, buying power of the average Bengal is substantially on the rise. With that, also the outlook for the poultry sector is promising. Further professionalizing...