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With the local and global demand for pork increasing, Botswana can have a stake in its production, according to a study released this week.

Cash income for Canadian farm businesses rose 2.8%, or nearly $300 million, to $11.0 billion from 2008 to 2009 despite declines in four provinces. This was the third consecutive annual increase in cash income as crop revenues remained strong and expenses fell for the first time since 1986.

The Miyazaki prefectural government has lifted its state of emergency concerning foot-and-mouth disease, which had broken out among livestock in the prefecture. The state of emergency officially ended at midnight Monday and was announced shortly thereafter, in the early minutes of Tuesday morning, by Miyazaki Gov. Hideo Higashikokubaru in front of the prefectural government building.

The USDA Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration is extending the comment period for the regulations required by Title XI of the Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 and regarding conduct in violation of the Packers and Stockyards Act until November 22, 2010.

In the first half of this year, the Ministry of Agriculture dispatched 40 supervision groups with a total of 125 persons/times to guide local prevention and control work. Meanwhile, intensive measures were adopted in reporting and inspecting epidemics, and 55 outbreaks of animal epidemics were inspected.

By Order of the Minister of Agriculture and Food Dr. Miroslav Naydenov National Advisory Council on Agriculture has been established. It will be a permanent advisory body subordinated to the Minister, as one of its tasks will be to identify current policy directions in agriculture in line with the Government Program as well as to discuss and propose strategies and operational activities in accordance with the reformed CAP in connection with with the higher profitability and competitiveness of the sector.

The aim of the current study was to collect, compile and synthesise data on T-2 toxin and HT-2 toxin, including contamination of food and feed commodities and products thereof in Europe, co-occurrence with other mycotoxins, and factors (environmental, agronomic and processing) influencing the levels of T-2 toxin and HT-2 toxin in plant products used for food and feed production.

Russia’s government adopted a list of essential food goods to have retail price limits. The text of the document was published in the Rossiyskaya daily on Monday.

As part of a national swine tracing system, the Canadian Pork council has begun to hand out traceability ear tags.

Ovasort Limited, which is based in Cardiff, has discovered sex-linked proteins on the surface of sperm cells of both pigs and cattle, and has developed a prototype product to identify and separate the male and female cells for each sex in both species.

The problems of river pollution and stench from commercial-scale pig farming activities in Kuching, Sarian and Samarahan can be overcome when the breeders relocate their operations to the 800-hectare integrated, environment-friendly pig-breeding centre, near Balai Ringin in Samarahan.

With the objective of readying the organization of the National Health and Agrifood Quality Service (SENASA) for the challenge of strengthening the role of the state in animal and vegetable health, food safety and environmental health issues, decree 825/2010 was approved this past June.