Myanmar acting on foot-and-mouth disease

Xinhua News Agency;  June 28, 2008 ;     353 words ...Myanmar acting on foot-and-mouth disease YANGON, June 28 (Xinhua...measures against outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in draught cattle. The appeal came after foot-and-mouth disease has been found in buffaloes...delta and Yangon ...

Nearly all rice mills resume operation in Myanmar cyclone-hit areas

Xinhua News Agency;  September 1, 2008 ;     387 words ......during the storm with over 200,000 draught cattle being killed, according to official...tillers provided in place of storm-swept draught cattle. With the contribution of the government...farmland, killing up to 50 percent of draught cattle, destroying fishing boats and sweeping...

UNDP provides loans to Myanmar cyclone-affected farmers

Xinhua News Agency;  August 16, 2008 ;     353 words ......paddy using powered tillers provided in place of storm-swept draught cattle. With the contribution of the government and local and international...600,000 hectares of farmland, killing up to 50 percent of draught cattle, destroying fishing boats and sweeping away food stocks...

Myanmar helps cyclone-affected farmers resume farming

Xinhua News Agency;  June 22, 2008 ;     434 words ......townships of Laputta and Dedaye were also provided with draught cattle and paddy seeds for the move. Besides, the authorities are...and three in Mon state during the storm with over 200,000 draught cattle killed. Myanmar has announced that the first phase of the...

Performance Evaluation of Raipur Dugdh Sangh Sahkari Maryadit in Rural...

Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics;  July 1, 2004 ;     340 words ......of primary health treatment, foot and mouth disease (FMD) vaccination and fodder...were 6.87 and 5.37 for milch and draught cattle whereas, non-members had 8.36 and 5.59 milch and draught cattle in the 3.75 hectares of crop...

More cyclone-hard-hit township in Myanmar starts with paddy ploughing

Xinhua News Agency;  May 29, 2008 ;     460 words ......Using powered tillers provided in place of storm-swept draught cattle, the local farmers are striving to meet a cultivation target...and three in Mon state during the storm with over 200,000 draught cattle killed. Myanmar estimated the damage and loss caused by...

Roundup: Cyclone-hard-hit townships resume paddy planting in Myanmar

Xinhua News Agency;  June 3, 2008 ;     510 words ......paddy using powered tillers provided in place of storm-swept draught cattle. Earlier, farmers in the hardest-hit Laputta township had...division and 3 in Mon state during the storm with over 200,000 draught cattle killed. Myanmar estimated the damage and loss caused by...

Most rice mills resume operation in cyclone-hit areas in Myanmar

Xinhua News Agency;  June 16, 2008 ;     356 words ......division and 3 in Mon state during the storm with over 200,000 draught cattle killed, according to official statistics. Meanwhile, a month...paddy using powered tillers provided in place of storm-swept draught cattle. Besides the rice mills, fish and prawn breeding ponds in...

FAO to donate more cattle to Myanmar cyclone-hit regions

Xinhua News Agency;  October 13, 2008 ;     248 words ......14 (Xinhua) -- The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United Nations is making arrangements to donate more draught cattle to support the rehabilitation work of Myanmar cyclone victims, the local Weekly Eleven reported Tuesday. A total of 550...

Perfection won Royal award

Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  January 9, 2008 ;     460 words ......kept with them, for the beasts delighted to feed with them. Fattening cattle were to have first bite at the pastures, then draught cattle and then sheep. After Midsummer, when there is an extraordinary sweetness in the grass, suffer the cattle to eat the grass...

News Items from Asia-Pacific Desk of Xinhua (Part 2)

Xinhua News Agency;  June 27, 2008 ;     604 words ......Guangdong step up fight against epidemic Pakistan follows comprehensive strategy to combat militancy Foot-and-mouth disease hits draught cattle in Myanmar's cyclone- hit areas Two Indonesians admit selling kidneys in Singapore Earthquake rocks...

Modern farming leads ethnic Zhuang farmers to prosperity

Xinhua News Agency;  September 25, 2002 ;     424 words ......to prosperity NANNING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) -- Modern machinery, instead of traditional farm tools such as mill wheels and draught-cattle, were prevalent at this year's major agricultural fair held in Long 'an County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous...

India Accuses Roslin Institute of Pirating Cattle

Xinhua English Newswire;  August 26, 1998 ;     168 words ......technology. A controversy has erupted in India's Kerala State over the extinction and piracy of its "Vechur" breed, a short draught cattle that is the smallest cattle variety in the world, the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology (RFSTE) said...

Myanmar to build special cattle breeding zone in cyclone-hit areas

Xinhua News Agency;  July 7, 2008 ;     333 words ......324-hectare) zone will be built between Latputta and Myaungmya, the Voice said. Dissemination of knowledge on ploughing land with draught cattle will also be done by the department, the report added. Meanwhile, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) of the United...

Plea to ban cow slaughter dismissed

The Hindustan Times;  August 24, 2007 ;     458 words ......that enjoined upon the State to make laws to make laws prohibiting the slaughter of cows and calves and other milch and draught cattle. However, this provision is not enforceable as it is part of the Directive Principles of State Policy and not an enforceable...