Card Project Progress Report: " A blueprint for sustainable smallholder pig production in Central Vietnam - Milestone 7 " doc

... again. Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Development Project Progress Report A blueprint for sustainable smallholder pig production in Central Vietnam CARD Project 004/05VIE MILESTONE ... TTH). An epidemic of disease and the resultant eradication or management campaign is something that our project cannot possibly insulate against at this point in time. Given that farmers are ... format is available on request and individual farm records for the majority of farms have been entered into the online database. NIAH and NIVR have entered their farm data into Excel from Quangtri...

... farmer training exercises in which a number of farmers and paraveterinarians from neighbouring areas attended, but we are really building towards the major initiative in January 2010. Each institute ... Vietnamese in entering the data. Now all issues regarding the database are resolved and survey data, can now be entered. An additional advantage that has assisted Vietnamese scientists enter data is ... impossible to achieve all major project interventions at once, given that in many cases there are financial constraints on farmers making major structural changes and that the farmers must be introduced...

... Report A blueprint for sustainable smallholder pig production in Central Vietnam CARD Project 004/05VIE MILESTONE 8 TRAINING MANUALS Figure: Mrs Tuyet (Thua Thien Hue demonstration farmer) ... learning. Whilst all efforts were directed towards production of a high quality training DVD in January/February, final efforts are now being directed towards providing ancillary training materials ... as a major initiative to be undertaken by Tarni Cooper in collaboration with a film maker and Vietnamese scientists integrated with a more formal training video covering the major project interventions,...

... diarrhoea isolates, indicating that it was still a significant pathogen in preweaning diarrhoea in Vietnam. In post-weaning diarrhoea, the major pathotypes were associated with F18 rather than ... 0.005.0010.0015.0020.0025.0030.0035.0040.0045.0050.00Apr-05May-05Jun-05Jul-05Aug-05Sep-05Oct-05Nov-05Dec-05Jan-06Feb-06Mar-06Apr-06May-06Jun-06Month% Pre Weaning MortalityAnh De Thai Binh CAnh Thiet Hung Yen CTrang Due Hai ... side-effects. The vaccine has also been produced for the CARD 004/05VIE project and used in the selected smallholder farms in central Vietnam in this related AUSAID project as part of a Continuous...

... Essentially a batch-farrowing system with aged segregated rearing is regarded as best practice. Continuous farrowing with all -in/ all-out weaner and growing pig housing is the next best approach ... Monitoring and assessing pig housing; • Artificial insemination – theory and practice. Other areas involved in the training program included: • Reproduction o managing gilts o problem solving ... and farrowing rates • Food safety and hygiene – research and development • Waste management • Developing and managing biosystems • Australian Pork Industry Quality Assurance Program and Pig...

... continue this programme as well as assess the effectiveness of the DVD as training tool in farmer to farmer training initiatives. 1. Institute Information Project Name A blueprint for sustainable ... sustainable small holder pig production in Central Vietnam Vietnamese Institution National Institute of Animal Husbandry (NIAH); Hue University of Agriculture and Forestry (HUAF); National Institute ... of medications for a range of pig diseases in which the veterinarians and the project farmers were the major participants. Antimicrobials and antiparasitic drugs covering the major production...