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Global Livestock Production in Challenging Environment
Dato’ Dr. Quaza Nizamuddin graduated with a degree in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Universiti Pertanian Malaysia in 1984 and pursued his Master of Science in Tropical Veterinary Epidemiology and Preventive Veterinary Medicine from the Free University Berlin, Germany in 1994.
He was previously Kedah and Perak State Director of Department of Veterinary Services for 11 years. He was later appointed as the Deputy Director General and finally on 5th June 2017 appointed as a Director General at the Department of Veterinary Services Malaysia.
He has extensive knowledge and skills in the field of livestock production and animal health having worked with stakeholders and the industry for the past 34 years.
He has been involved in the Feed Act 2009 and was responsible in the formulation of Animal Welfare Act 2015. He has written and published in various journals and presented papers in conferences.
Currently Dato’ Dr Quaza Nizamuddin sits as the Chairman of the Animal Welfare Board and Feed Board. He is the Director in the Malaysian Equine
Council. He is also the President of the Malaysian Veterinary Council as well as the President of Veterinary Association of Malaysia.
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The Digital Future: The Role of ‘Big Data’ for Agricultural Development in the Region
Brief Background
Peter Thomson is an Associate Professor of Biometry at The University of Sydney. His academic training was in zoology and statistics. He has spent most of his career teaching applied statistics to agricultural, veterinary and medical audiences. His research background is quite broad, but with a focus on quantitative genetics, and epidemiology, often with a ‘big data’ perspective. However, increasingly, his interests are in international agricultural development, assisting in-country researchers implementing and evaluating their programs, and developing their research skills. He has been involved in development projects and capacity building in Kenya, Zambia, Tanzania, Tibet, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
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The Digital Future: The Role of ‘Big Data’ for Agricultural Development in the Region
Making optimal decisions for agricultural improvement should be evidence-based and this requires the collection of appropriate data, careful data analysis, and drawing of appropriate conclusions. Until recently, data sets available for this process were often manually collected and processed. However, increasingly, large-scale data sets, known as ‘big data’ are being generated automatically, and this presents new opportunities. Relevant areas of ‘big data’ in the agricultural and animal production sector, in particular, are in the area of genomics, mapping, fine-scale climate data, and are often freely available. Utilizing these free resources, in particular, has a great potential, particular counties in the region.
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Advanced Research on Swine Feed Net Energy System
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Dairy Buffalo Development Program in the Philippines
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The Global Current Status in the Animal Reproduction and Biotechnology for Improving Livestock Production in the Near Future
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Stress and Immune Response in Livestock
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Strategic Feeding and Nutrition in Monogastric Animal
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New Concept: From Practical Monogastric Animal Management to Greenhouse Gas Production
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Livestock and Poultry Production in Cambodia: Challenges and Opportunity
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Livestock and Poultry Production in Bangladesh: Recent Trends and Future Perspective
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Sustainability of Birds Nest Resources and Production to Meet Global Demand
Research development, commercialization, and marketing of the bird’s nest industry if not managed seriously by the concerned countries and governments will see the demise and “death” of the bird’s nest industry globally. Efforts by MOA in Malaysia, with DVS leading the surveillance, management, and business of bird nest is inadequate in view of the realities of this lucrative product being plundered, short chained and abuse at all levels of the value chain by the unscrupulous parties locally and globally, enough to destroy what’s is God’s gift to mankind. Conventional harvesting, cleaning, and processing of birds nest are traditional; time consuming and laborious, leading to unintentional economic and nutritional losses. Addressing these issues at this auspicious AAAP conference is not going to stop the continuous depletion of the bird’s nest breeding ground, production rate and farmers dire straits efforts to secure long term returns. This may due to the fact that current and future demand is in multiple-fold while supply is insufficient although it’s not the fault of the inherent producing countries to meet the hungry demand of the rich countries of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. This talk will highlight the Malaysian government efforts in sustaining bird nest farming industry and explore the strength and weaknesses of the past and present situations leading to the present state of affairs of our precious swiftlet bird nest industry.
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The Use and Misuse of Antibiotics in the Developing World
The revolution in the therapeutic control of infectious diseases initiated by the discovery of the antibiotic penicillin in 1928 has resulted in the development of a wide range of antibiotics derived from various biological resources used in human medicine and animal production. Since these natural molecules are found in nature to protect their host organisms against invasive microbia, it is not surprising that these bacteria develop survival mechanisms to resist their functionality. Following their discovery, it was quickly realized that they could be used at low levels as feed additives to selectively decrease the microbial load in the gastrointestinal tract and therefore increase the efficiency of feed utilisation by as much as 15%. Together with their over-prescription in human medicine, this practice has accelerated the process of microbial resistance. The complement of genes responsible for the multiple resistance mechanisms including the synthesis of antibiotic targeted enzymes are easily transferred across species including humans through zoonotic transfer. Naturally occurring alternatives to the use of antibiotics as growth promotants across the poultry, pig and ruminant production industries have now been investigated extensively. A range of herbal and plant extracts have been identified as potential alternatives to act as natural antibiotics which also have anti-inflammatory properties. The search for other alternatives will need to continue to maintain our world supply of food animal protein.
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Advancements in the Standards of Animal Welfare Assessment: Moving on From the Five Freedoms
Dr Sumita Sugnaseelan obtained her undergraduate degree in Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) in 2000. She was conferred Doctorate of Philosophy (PhD) in Animal Welfare from the University of Cambridge, the UK in 2006. Her field of specialisation is Ethology and Animal Welfare, and Stress Physiology. She is currently attached to the Department of Animal Science, Faculty of Agriculture UPM as an academic member of staff, and is also a Research Associate at the Centre of Excellence of Wildlife Research and Conservation UPM. Her research interests are behavioural and physiological approaches to assessing welfare, cognition and sensory\ perception in both wild as well as domestic animals.
With the advancement of animal welfare science, there exists a body of evidence which indicates that the Five Freedom may require a timely revision as it may not represent a comprehensive mechanism for the assessment of animal welfare. This has led to the need for a fundamental change in the underlying assumptions on how animal welfare should now be assessed, paving the way towards an analytical and evidence based approach for the improvement of animal welfare assessment standards.
Professor Dr.ZulkifliIdrus received Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and M.S. degrees from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 1989 and 1992, respectively. He holds a PhD degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, U.S.A. His research career has focused on animal stress physiology and welfare, and nutritional requirements under stressful environment. The results of Zulkifli’s research findings have been published in over 160 peer-reviewed journal articles. He served as the President of the World’s Poultry Science Association (Malaysia Branch) from 2012 to 2017.
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Palm Kernel Expeller in Poultry Diets: Is it the Right Move?
Obtained a Degree and Masters in animal agriculture at University of New England, Armidale, Australia, and Ph.D at University of Reading, UK, in 1989. Previously, a lecturer and Professor of Animal Nutrition at Department of Animal Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia (1980 – 2015). Joined UGM as an adjunct professor since 2016. Taught Animal Nutrition, Nutritional Physiology, Feeds Technology, and Animal Production. Research interests include the utilization of oil palm by-products, palm fatty acids in animal nutrition, and herbs as growth promotants in animals.
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Future Applications of Insects as an Alternative Protein Source for Human and Livestock Nutrition
He received a Bachelor’s degree (S1: ‘Sarjana’) from the Faculty of Animal Science, the University of Nusa Cendana in Indonesia (1980-1984). He obtained Master in Rural Science (M.Rur.Sc.) from the University of New England (1991 – 1995) and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) from the University of Queensland (1998 – 2001). He participated in the courses of “Arabic Language” and “Poultry Production and Health” (15/01 – 31/03 2008) organized by the Egyptian International Centre for Agriculture (EICA), Cairo, Egypt. He was a twice Visiting Professor to the Department of Poultry Science, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA (September – December 2010 & 2017).
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Development of Beef and Dairy Industries In Indonesia: Government’s Initiative and Future Directions
Ali Agus, Professor at the Faculty of Animal Science UGM Yogyakarta Indonesia. He is graduated from ENSA Rennes France for Master and PhD degrees. His major research interest on ruminant nutrition dan feed technology includes recently development of multifunctional feed additive.
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Livestock Integration in Oil Palm Plantation – Potential and Limitation
Datuk Haji Daud Haji Amatzin has served several organisations in various capacities. He was Vice President and Head of Occupational Safety and Health Department, Felda Global Ventures Holdings Berhad (2010 – 2014); Executive Director, Head of Central Zone, Felda Plantations Sdn Bhd (2009 – 2010); Chief Executive of Academy Felda (2007 – 2009); Chief Executive of ISP (2005 – 2007), and Head of Government Affairs, Malaysian Palm Oil Association (2000 – 2005). He worked many years as a Plantation Manager, serving private-owned estates including Borneo Abaca Ltd in Tawau, developed by the Commonwealth Development Corporation. His working experience includes the cultivation and production of tropical tree crops such as oil palm, cocoa, coconut, pepper and coffee. Planting rubber was his first instance exposure to the industry in 1974 and passed Outward Bound Course at Lumut with a Merit Badge. He also lectures at Universiti Putra Malaysia and Universiti Teknologi Mara since 2004. Appointed as industry linkages resource person by Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) and Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) since 2006. He was appointed as the Council Member of Malaysian Palm Oil Association, and Malayan Agricultural Producers Association in 2010. He is the President (Acting) of the International Institute of Plantation Management.
He was elected as the Treasurer of Malaysian Professional Centre in 2010 – 2013. He was also appointed as a member of the Development Committee of Malaysian Standard MS 1725: Good Agricultural Practice (SIRIM) in 2005 and as a member of the Development Committee for National Occupational Skills Standards in 2002 under the Ministry of Human Resources.
He was awarded the Panglima Jasa Negara (PJN) which carries the title “Datuk” by DYMM Seri Paduka Baginda Yang D-Pertuan Agong on 4 June 2016.