Future Prospects of Duck Production in Asia.

Asia accounted for 87% of the world's duck population in 1999. In last two decades, duck meat and duck egg production has increased more than 4 times in Asia. This increment came from the growing duck population of local breeds, as well as the expansion of imported breeds from foreign breeding companies. Future aspects of duck production in Asia will be discussed in this paper. These include the improvement of production efficiency, the influence from joint venture, the utilization of locally available feedstuffs, duck-cum-rice and duck-cum-fish integrated systems, genetic resource conservation, low-fat duck production, the development of value-added duck products, product biosecurity and disease control, and pollution control of duck-raising.