The bird flu virus has already caused losses worth US$2.7bn to the nation’s poultry industry. (Image source: wattpublishing/Flickr)
Feed demand from Chinas poultry industry may slump 20 per cent in the second quarter of 2013 from a year earlier after a bird flu outbreak in the country
Philippines has identified several fish species as endangered. (Image source: sxc.hu)
The export of fish and seafood to major markets is expected to massively recover in the second quarter of 2013. (Image source: Goran Necin/Flickr)
The number of pigs being raised in the country surged to a record high of 10.11mn in March 2013 up 14.2 per cent from a year earlier. (Image source: wattpublishing/Flickr)
The South Korean government has revealed plans to cull up to 100,000 female hogs in their child-bearing years to help stabilise pork prices
The culling started after China’s Ministry of Agriculture found the H7N9 virus from pigeons at the Huhuai agricultural products market. (Image source: Mr Michael Phams/Flickr)
The Chinese poultry industry has been hit by a new strain of bird flu, H7N9 virus, which has already resulted in the culling of more than 20,000 birds in eastern China and surrounding areas
