Workshop on Swamp buffalo in Vietnam

• Opening address:  Le Viet Ly
   
• Buffalo development in Vietnam; constraints and prospects; Le Viet Ly
   
• Urgent need in Buffalo development for food security and self-sufficiency; C Chantalakhana
   

• Swamp buffalo rumen ecology and its manipulation; M Wanapat 
   

• Effect of urea-molasses-mineral supplementation on in vivo, in situ and in vitro feed digestibility of swamp buffaloes; Nguyen van Thu
   

• Estimation of rumen microbial protein production from urinary purine derivatives in local buffalo in Vietnam; Le Duc Ngoan, Nguyen Xuan Ba and Vo Kim Thanh
   

• Potential of agro-byproducts as feed resources for buffaloes in Vietnam; Bui Van Chinh and Le Viet Ly
   

• Changes of cattle and buffalo production in village farming systems and their long-term  impacts on buffalo raising; P Skunmun, T  Poondusit, A Koga and C Chantalakhana
   
• The role of Swamp buffalo in agricultural production of small farm holder; Do Kim Tuyen and Nguyen Van Ly
   
• Village buffalo production, conservation and development; K Koobkaew and M Wanapat
   

• Supplementing cassava root meal and cassava processed leaves to diets based on natural grasses, maize stover and rice straw  for fattening young swamp buffaloes; Dao Lan Nhi, Mai Van Sanh and Le Viet Ly
   

• Studies on incidence and control of Trypanosomiasis in buffalos caused by Trypanosome avansi steel 1885 in North Vietnam; Pham Si Lang

Abstracts

• Situation of buffalo raising in small-holder farms and their production in Cambodia; Chhum Phith Loan,  Mey S and Churp P
   
• Past, present and future trend of the Buffalo in Laos; Bounthong Bouahom
   

• Study on the application of molecular biological techniques in typing of Pasteurella multocida in buffalo and cattle; Phan Thanh Phuong, Truong Van Dung, Dinh Duy Khang, Hoang Xuan Nghinh, La Van Phan

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