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  • Vietnam - prolonged cold warning for northern mountainous provinces

    The northern mountainous provinces share a border with China's southern mountainous areas

    Updated at 01:57, Thursday, 29/12/2011 (GMT +7)

    According to the Animal Husbandry Department (Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development), the supply of food for the Lunar New Year will be plentiful, because livestock are convenient and epidemics in livestock and poultry in the country has been controlled institutions.

    However, in the northern mountainous provinces, where large herds are now faced with cold weather damage over a week. This situation also extends north by several waves remain open cold air on consecutive increase.

    The prolonged cold spell in the mountainous province in recent years has made hundreds of thousands of cattle have died of hunger and cold.

    Most recently, during the cold weather damage extends from late 2010 to May 2-2011 and some unusual cold spell bold then did the 100 thousand cattle and grazing cattle died.

    So, to livestock and poultry do not die of starvation, cold, disease, the local (especially mountainous) is not subjective, it should be proactive in the dissemination of experience, improve awareness on the prevention of disease, hunger and cold for pets.
    Steering Committee held several round-level advocacy, mobilizing people fully vaccinated for livestock and poultry to curb the epidemic, to overcome bovine underweight, lack of resistance in winter; renovated barn, Warm camp for livestock and limited grazing too early, not when the temperature ranging below 15oC


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