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Laos
Index
The government encourages animal husbandry through
programs for
cattle breeding, veterinary services, cultivation of
pasture crops,
and improvement of fish, poultry, and pig stocks. Between
1976-78
and 1986-88, the stock of all farm animals increased
greatly:
cattle by 69 percent to 588,000 head; goats by 128 percent
to
73,000; pigs by 103 percent to 1.5 million; horses by 59
percent to
42,000; buffaloes by 55 percent to 1 million; and chickens
by 101
percent to 8 million. Increases, however, would, have been
significantly greater without diseases and a persistent
shortage of
animal feed. Disease is a serious problem: there is a
significant
annual mortality of chickens and pigs in most villages,
and
buffaloes are also frequently subject to epidemics.
Data as of July 1994
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