Opening remark by Prof. In K. Han (Former President of AAAP)

a) Plenary session

• Future research needs to meet the challenges of livestock development (Dr. Carlos Sere–Director General of International Livestock Research Institute)

• Sufficiency Economy: An Approach for Smallholder Agricultural Development to Enhance Peace and Stability (Dr. Charan Chantalakhana – Senior Scientist, Former Vice Director of CGIAR)

• Frame work of the code of Good Sanitary – Agricultural Practice for small holder farms in developing countries (Dr. Shozo Wantanabe - Former President of AAAP)

• Livestock sector development for poverty reduction–an economic and policy perspective (Dr. Joachim Otte - Senior Officer FAO Rome)

• The implications of declining availability of resource inputs for agriculture in a changing and warming world – The integrate production need to of food, feed and energy for human survival in a changing and warming world (Drs. R. A. Leng and T.R. Preston – Senior Scientists MEKARN, SIDA/ SAREC)

• Animal biodiversity as preventing buffer to emerging diseases ((Dr. Jean Charles Maillard – Senior Scientist CIRAD)

• Animal Production development in the process of agricultural transformation in Vietnam (Dr. Le Viet Ly – Senior Scientist AHAV)

b) Concurrent session (Oral and Poster presentation)

• Ruminant production (Nutrition and Feeding, Genetic and Breeding etc…)

• Pig production (Nutrition and Feeding, Genetic and Breeding etc…)

• Poultry production (Nutrition and Feeding, Genetic and Breeding etc…)

• Aquaculture (Nutrition and Feeding, Genetic and Breeding etc…)

• Human resources development (Education, Training and Extension)

• Animal species conservation and utilization

• Animal behavior and welfare

• Animal environment and waste management

• Animal products and processing

• Animal production systems

• Reproduction and physiology

• Animal health care and animal food safety

c) Satellite symposium

·           Recent advances in Animal Nutrition

– Coordinator: Prof. Jong Kyu Ha

·         Symposiums on Human Resources Development: the Role of Education, Training and Extension

– Organized by SIDA/MEKARN

·         Symposiums on Forage rice production in Asia - Organized by:

National Agriculture and Food Research Organization

National Agriculture Research Center, Japan

National Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, Japan

National Institute of Crop Science, Japan

·           Avian Influenza

– Sponsored by FAO Hanoi

·           Piglet nutrition and diseases

– Sponsored by Taiwan

·           Future and practical use of amino acids for animal production

- Sponsored by Ajinomoto Co., Inc and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.