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With new funding secured through a nearly US$800,000 grant from the NASA Land Cover/Land Use Change programme, researchers from Michigan State University will be working to assess aquaculture in Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Thailand.

The beef market outlook for 2023 remains broadly optimistic but this optimism is "surrounded by a fair degree of uncertainty," according to Mark Zieg, beef sector manager at Irelands Bord Bia.

Irelands Teagasc has forecast a drop in global milk prices and a hike in feed costs this year.

Malaysias statistics department said chicken wholesalers in the country earn MYR 1.30 (~US$0.30; MYR 1 = US$0.23) per kg profit on chicken, while retailers make MYR 1.25 (~US$0.28) per kg,

Datuk Sri Dr Stephen Rundie Utom, the Minister of Food Industry, Commodity and Regional Development in Sarawak state, Malaysia, said his ministry will be closely monitoring prices of pork within the state, Malay Mail reported.

More than 56,000 cows and buffalos were stricken by infectious diseases in Cambodia in the past year.

The production of fish from aquaculture projects in Oman has reached 1,703 tonnes in 2022, compared to 284 tonnes in 2014, according to Dawood Suleiman al Yahyai, Director General of Fisheries Research at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Water Resources (MAFWR).

Livestock exports out of Darwin, Australia, have almost halved in 2022 due to price and biosecurity challenges in the cattle market.

More than one quarter of dairy farms in France closed down over the past ten years, with a further decline expected in the next decade, new insights from the French Ministry of Agriculture revealed.

The cultivation of corn in Egypt should be expanded on reclaimed lands in New Delta, Toshki, East Owinat, Sinai, New Valley, Western Menya and Matrouhs Maghara in order to deal with the shortage of animal feed in the country, said Ayman Abdel Aal, agricultural expert at the Horticulture Research Institute.