Thanks to their 15-year efforts since 1990, a research team, headed by Prof. DUAN Jiashu, Department of Zoology, a part of Beijing Institute of Agriculture, has successfully produced an attenuated vaccine to prevent coccidiosis. Beijing Institute of Agriculture has recently inked an agreement with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences on selling the vaccine to the Lanzhou Veterinary Institute, part of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, at a price of RMB 3 million.
Though similar to the British made Paracox to vaccinate for coccidiosis, the Chinese made vaccine sells at a price only one tenth of its overseas counterparts. China annually breeds a chicken herd of 6 to 7 billion in number. The vaccine, as a worthy bio-vet product tailored to China?痵 poultry industry, makes itself important both economically and socially. |
