Vaccination strategies in African farmyard poultry production
The joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture has been executing a Coordinated Research Project (CRP) on "Assessment of the effectiveness of vaccination strategies against Newcastle disease and Gumboro Disease using immunoassay-based technologies for increasing farmyard poultry production in Africa". The final meeting of the project was held on 24-28 May 2004 in Vienna, Austria and from this, conclusions, recommendations, ranking of interventions to improve village poultry production and recommended future activities to increase farmyard poultry production in Africa are now available. The proceedings of the CRP will be published soon. See
http://www.iaea.org/programmes/nafa/d3/mtc/04_rcm.html or contact
[email protected] for more information.
