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08 February 2019
Dompu, West Nusa Tenggara. The Ministry of Agriculture, through the Directorate General of Livestock and Animal Health Services (DGLAHS), is taking immediate actions to control the current rabies outbreak in Dompu regency, Sumbawa, West Nusa Tenggara province.  After previously sending a Joint Veterinary Team to conduct investigations and immediate vaccination of...
07 February 2019
Kupang,  East Nusa Tenggara The Ministry of Agriculture and provincial authorities have been working with over 16,000 smallholders since 2013, in NTT and NTB provinces to help them adapt to climate change using a special technique called conservation agriculture.   The new approach helps farmers to cope with extreme weather events, while increasing...
25 January 2019
In 2017, the Avian Influenza virus type H9N2, which does not harm humans but can reduce poultry productivity, also known as Low Pathogenic Avian Influenza (LPAI), attacked the major poultry production centers in Indonesia. Layer poultry farms experienced a decline in production of up to 70% due to the virus....
05 December 2018
The Field Epidemiology Training Program for Veterinarians in Indonesia (FETPV / PELVI - Program Epidemiologi Lapangan Veteriner Indonesia) concluded its third stakeholder meeting recently. The meeting aimed to update stakeholders on FETPV progress since its launch in May 2017. Thirty invitees representing the Government of Indonesia, partner universities, academia, epidemiology...
03 December 2018
Through its Emergency Centre for Transboundary Animal Diseases (ECTAD) in Indonesia together with the Directorate of Animal Health (DAH), Ministry of Agriculture made four oral presentations and nine poster presentations at the 15th International Symposium of Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE 15) in Chiang Mai, Thailand, on 12-16 November 2018. ISVEE...