With its growing poultry meat market, the city of Liuzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has plans to build dozens of new poultry farms to give business a boost. The 95 new poultry farms, to cover an area of 115,000 square meters, will be based on a model where companies work with production bases and farmers, according to the Liuzhou animal husbandry-veterinary and fishery bureau. Farmers will sign deals with companies and sell them meat directly…Full-text article: BlackSeaGrain July 2013
Key point
- According to the article, since April 2013, Liuzhou’s poultry industry has suffered from a new form of H7N9 bird flu
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- On March 20, 2013, three middle school students confirmed infected with H1N1 flu virus in Rongshui (city) county, Liuzhou city, Guangxi region