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Bird Flu Crisis: Feed Makers Urge Swift Action by Thai Government.
Feb. 6--Producers of raw materials for animal feed are seeking urgent solutions -- export and price intervention -- to cope with depressed prices stemming from the bird flu outbreak.
To date, the deadly virus has led to a mass cull of more than 26 million poultry in the country, resulting a drastic decline in the sales of animal feed.
Producers of the key ingredients of animal feed -- fishmeal, maize and soybean meal -- say they have been hard hit by the bird flu crisis and might be forced out of business within a month if no action is taken. The market value of the three products combined exceeds tens of billions of baht a year.
For fishmeal, Thawee Piyapatana, president of the Thai Fishmeal Producers' ...
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- Bird Flu Crisis: Feed Makers Urge Swift Action by Thai Government.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News February 6, 2004 700+ words
...raw materials for animal feed are seeking urgent...stemming from the bird flu outbreak. To date...in the sales of animal feed. Producers of the key ingredients of animal feed -- fishmeal...hard hit by the bird flu crisis and might...
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...prevent the spread of bird flu has been developed...to make special animal feed by year's end...struggling to contain bird flu outbreaks on a...has been hit by bird flu three times since...producer of special animal feed, dietary supplements...
