Flutrop CIRAD Avian Influenza

Authors :

S. Desvaux, CIRAD Vietnam; T. Vu Dinh, CIRRD; T. Phan Dang, CIRRD; H. Pham Thi Thanh, NIAH

Extract :

Vietnam is an agricultural country with 70% of population living in rural area (61,332,200/ 84,155,800 persons). Ninety percent of households (about 8 million households) keep poultry. Thus, poultry production plays an important role in household economy by contributing for 19% of the households incomes, the second rank after pig production (DLP (1), 2006).In 2006, the poultry population was estimated around 214,565,000. Chickens account for 73% of total poultry population and waterfowl for 27% (DLP (1) (2), 2006). The total poultry meat production (live weight) was estimated to be 321,89 thousand tons and the number of eggs produced was 3,9 billions (GSO, 2007). The annual output value from poultry production was estimated at 3 619,3 billion dongs at constant 1994 prices accounted for around 13% of the total livestock output value in 2006 (GSO, 2007) (...).

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Contact :

Dr Stéphanie Desvaux

CIRAD - Regional Office - 4th floor - 19 Han Thuyen - Hanoï - Vietnam

DVM, Veterinary epidemiologist

Mail : stéphanie.desvaux@cirad.fr