Kaviphone Phouthavong and Dr Thanawat Tiensin chair the national dialogue in Vientiane. - VT
VIENTIANE: Livestock plays a pivotal role in the Lao agricultural sector, contributing to more than a third of the sector’s value-added products, according to a senior official.
The director-general of the Department of Livestock and Fisheries, Kaviphone Phouthavong, said during the National Dialogue on Investment in Sustainable Livestock Transformation in Laos recently that Laos’ livestock exports in the past nine months were worth more than US$61 million.
