The Japan International CooperationAgreement (JICA) has reached a cooperation agreement with six ASEANcountries on the establishment of animal disease control informationnetwork by the end of this year, according to Myanmar ’s local weeklyYangon Times on August 10.
The ASEAN countries participating in the agreement included Vietnam ,Laos , Cambodia , Malaysia , Thailand and Myanmar , which gave the nodto the deal at the fourth Regional Joint Committee Meeting on theRegional Cooperation Project for Animal Disease Control held in Yangon, Myanmar .
The Myanmar weekly said JICA has been carrying out a three-year animaldisease control project with those six ASEAN countries since February2008 and will apply measures to control abortion disease andtuberculosis on dairy cows as part of the project from next month.
The Japanese agency has also extended a project to control animaldiseases, including bird flu, in Pyin OO Lwin and Amarapura towns inMyanmar ’s northern region from now through 2011. This project alsocovers setting up laboratories, exchanging information and organisingrefresher courses on the field in the areas.
Last year, JICA has provided Myanmar with 102 million JPY (roughly830,000 USD) to help the country combat five animal diseases within theframework of the 2008-2010 project.
With Japanese assistance, Myanmar has increased the monitoring oftrans-border quarantine of animal diseases and cooperated with Thailandand China to position quarantine offices at border trade areas forexchanging information rapidly and testing the safety of live animalsand their byproducts bound for trans-border import and export./.
The ASEAN countries participating in the agreement included Vietnam ,Laos , Cambodia , Malaysia , Thailand and Myanmar , which gave the nodto the deal at the fourth Regional Joint Committee Meeting on theRegional Cooperation Project for Animal Disease Control held in Yangon, Myanmar .
The Myanmar weekly said JICA has been carrying out a three-year animaldisease control project with those six ASEAN countries since February2008 and will apply measures to control abortion disease andtuberculosis on dairy cows as part of the project from next month.
The Japanese agency has also extended a project to control animaldiseases, including bird flu, in Pyin OO Lwin and Amarapura towns inMyanmar ’s northern region from now through 2011. This project alsocovers setting up laboratories, exchanging information and organisingrefresher courses on the field in the areas.
Last year, JICA has provided Myanmar with 102 million JPY (roughly830,000 USD) to help the country combat five animal diseases within theframework of the 2008-2010 project.
With Japanese assistance, Myanmar has increased the monitoring oftrans-border quarantine of animal diseases and cooperated with Thailandand China to position quarantine offices at border trade areas forexchanging information rapidly and testing the safety of live animalsand their byproducts bound for trans-border import and export./.
