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Professor Francis Nunoo, chairman of Ghana's Fisheries Commission Board, said the country's aquaculture industry is facing a serious challenge as the cost of feed continues to increase, accounting for more than 70% of total production costs, and diseases continue to spread in aquaculture facilities, Ghana Web reported.
The European Commission has approved two new schemes proposed in the Netherlands that would compensate livestock farmers in certain areas who choose to close their breeding sites voluntarily, Agriland reported.
Taiwan's Consumers' Foundation opposed the country's Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) proposal to lift a ban on imports of Canadian beef from cattle older than 30 months, Taipei Times reported.
Despite an increase in sales last year, the Indonesian poultry sector is expected to see limited growth this year as firms' bottom lines are eroded by a prolonged oversupply of live birds and higher input costs, Jakarta Post reported.
The Philippines' Department of Agriculture (DA) will complete two facilities worth PHP 100 million (~US$1.8 million; PHP 10 = US$0.18) that will produce protein-enriched copra meal (PECM), a less expensive animal feed ingredient, by the fourth quarter of 2023, The Philippine Inquirer reported.