Posted Wednesday, 12/12/2007 by admin
Dependency on Other Areas still High
BANDUNG, There is still a large potential for farming in West Java. Moreover, with the tendency of development of towns and cities in several areas in West Java; meat consumption will also increase.
First Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Animal Husbandry of Padjajaran University, Dr. Ir. Iwan Setiawan, D.E.A, said that based on research West Java will change its demographic composition with 70% developing into urban areas.
“This is actually a good opportunity for the people in the farming industry, especially cattle, sheep, goat, or chicken. If production of these four livestock could be increased to demand, West Java could be the strongest national livestock center,” he said in a discussion on West Java farming in the Pikiran Rakyat Office in Bandung on Tuesday (11/12).
Posted Wednesday, 12/12/2007 by admin
The Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture will soon lift the ban on beef importation from America. As much as 2 slaughterhouses, 1 meat processing factory and 1 meat storage facility has been inspected and was announced to be free from BSE. Even, the Director of Veterinary Public Health, Turni Rusli Syamsudin, said that America has met the safety and halality standards. “Importation depends on the industry,” said Turni.
Posted Tuesday, 12/11/2007 by admin
JAKARTA (SINDO) – Approaching Idul Adha day, as much as 735 people from the task force for sacrificial animal inspection is assigned to anticipate various diseases possibly suffered by sacrificial animal, some are anthrax, foot and mouth disease and mad cow disease.
These 735 people are comprised of 70 officers from the Livestock, Fisheries and Marine Office; 265 people are students of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Bogor Agricultural University; 50 people from the Indonesian Veterinary Medical Association (Perhimpunan Dokter Hewan Indonesia / PDHI); and 350 officers from the sub-offices of five districts in Jakarta.
“Officers must closely inspect cattle, buffalos, goats and sheep from West Java, Central Java, East Java, NTB, NTT and Lampung,” said the Head of the Livestock, Fisheries and Marine Office of DKI Jakarta, Edi Setiarto, yesterday.
Posted Tuesday, 12/11/2007 by admin
KENDAL (SINDO) – The District Livestock Office of Kendal guarantees sacrificial animals slaughtered for Idul Adha to be anthrax free. To prevent this disease, the Livestock Office has assigned officers to inspect sacrificial animal holding areas at several locations.
The Livestock Office applies more stringent measures for animals coming from other areas. The Head of the Animal Head Sub-Office of the Livestock Office, Diah Aning Budiarti, yesterday said that her office has assigned officers to conduct animal health inspection on sacrificial animals at several locations. Officers would go to each holding facility for sacrificial animals because animals here usually come from other areas. Before Idul Adha day, her office assigned officers to monitor animal health and on Idul Adha day, officers will inspect slaughter points.
Posted Monday, 12/10/2007 by admin
District of Ponorogo in East Java is currently lacking of Avian Influenza (AI) vaccines. Because of that, vaccination on poultry could not be conducted as planned, which is three time a year. Head of the Animal Health Section of the Livestock Sub-Office in the District Agriculture Office of Ponorogo, Andi Susetyo, yesterday said that based on the poultry population, particularly native chickens, the AI vaccine stock they have now is very little.
Posted Saturday, 12/08/2007 by admin
MADIUN(SINDO) – A number of high risk areas for anthrax transmission in sacrificial animals received stringent monitoring from the district government of Madiun. The District Livestock and Fisheries Office of Madiun focused monitoring on slaughterhouses, cattle and goat markets, dense areas of cattle and goats, and collecting places were livestock is traded.
Animal markets most heavily monitored are Bajulan market in Saradan sub-district and Moneng market in Pilangkenceng sub-district, while in the city of Madiun it is the animal market in Nambangan Lor administrative village in Mangunharjo sub-district. According to the Head of District Livestock and Fisheries Office of Madiun, Sulhadi Suwando, to ensure that the sacrificial animals are healthy and free from anthrax or any other infectious disease, those animals must have an animal health certificate.
Posted Saturday, 12/08/2007 by admin
LAHAT (SINDO) – Head of the District Livestock and Fisheries Office of Lahat, Himyar Mazani, said that his office is ready to conduct supervision on distributed sacrificial animals that are indicated to be diseased.
Even though Idul Adha Day 1428 H is still a few weeks away, his office since now has already done monitoring and routine examinations to sacrificial animal traders. “Based on our observation and data, approaching Idul Adha Day there will be approximately 200 cattle and 400 goats used as sacrificial animals,” said Himyar. Himyar also added that some of the animals were directly brought in by traders from Lampung.
Posted Saturday, 12/08/2007 by admin
The Indonesian Ministry of Health has chosen Tangerang District a pilot project for bird flu mitigation after several considerations and also because cases in this area were quite high. Head of the District Agriculture and Livestock Office of Tangerang, Didi Aswadi, said that the pilot project will effectively start in the beginning of year 2008 and will go on for 2.5 years. But, the pilot project has already been done from quite a long time ago, especially on how bird flu is spread.
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