The projects focus on poultry, vegetable and fruit production.

The projects focus mainly on fisheries, poultry production and horticulture.

Large modern cattle, dairy, and poultry farms are under construction.

Nine associations have been established for the raising of poultry and small ruminants.

The projects focus mainly on fisheries, poultry production, nutrition, crop production, forestry and livestock raising.

At U.S. borders, they also inspected 3.3 billion pounds of imported meat and poultry products.

Harming the poultry population on the island is an attempt to reduce an important source of protein in the diet of the Cuban people.

Many of these fish are consumed indirectly ground up and fed to factory farmed chicken or fish.

What is now clear, however, is that such government spending is really a kind of subsidy to the poultry industry. Like most subsidies, it is bad economics.

The same can be said of various forms of hunting in other countries, not to mention the vast amount of animal suffering caused by factory farms.

Exports of poultry products, for example, have been particularly affected by such sanitary regulations, which encompass rules pertaining to equipment and methods used in the processing and packaging of the product.

Iraq contends that there is no bioaccumulation data or other evidence to prove that the smoke plumes caused losses in production of livestock or poultry.

Also noting with concern the recent outbreak of avian influenza, recognizing its impact on human health as well as on the economy, and welcoming the Joint Ministerial Statement on the Current Poultry Disease Situation,

Farm types may range from dairy farms to poultry farms, from livestock keeping for meat production to manege horse riding schools, from orchards and vineyards to market gardens.

A pound of beef (live weight) requires about seven pounds of feed, compared to more than three pounds for a pound of pork and less than two pounds for a pound of chicken.

In fiscal year (FY) 2008, this included about 50 billion pounds of livestock carcasses, about 59 billion pounds of poultry carcasses, and about 4.3 billion pounds of processed egg products.

In 2004 alone, the direct cost of the embargo to Cuba's poultry industry exceeded 16.1 million, restricting a source of protein for the population and preventing the industry from making an increase in production equivalent to 30 million, by means of which an additional 750 million eggs could have been produced.

Moreover, the international community, through the United Nations, should give serious attention to the emerging threat of avian influenza virus, which had already resulted in deaths and substantial losses to the poultry industry in South East Asia.

While the long term viability and effectiveness of conditional cash transfer programs in Brazil and Mexico is questionable, these anti poverty initiatives certainly are better designed than Chávez s massive, blanket subsidies on everything from poultry and flour to housing and gasoline.

Many of these fish are consumed indirectly ground up and fed to factory farmed chicken or fish. A typical salmon farm churns through 3 4 kilograms of wild fish for every kilogram of salmon that it produces.