Day: July 14, 2023

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Vytelle Expands to Brisbane, Australia with Sixteenth Global Bovine In Vitro Fertilisation Laboratory

BRISBANE, Australia,, July 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Vytelle, a precision livestock company, is progressing on their five-year plan to provide accessible, hormone-free, bovine in vitro fertilisation to producers across the globe. Announced today, Vytelle has expanded to Brisbane, Australia with its sixteenth global laboratory.

Vytelle’s integrated technology platform combines Vytelle ADVANCE, a breakthrough in vitro fertilisation (IVF) technology, with Vytelle SENSE, an animal performance data capture system, and Vytelle INSIGHT, an artificial intelligence based genetic analytics engine.  The platform provides progressive cattle producers the technology to make reliable data-driven mating decisions that improve the predictability of genetic progress, replicating the right genetics faster.

The Brisbane-based, Australia laboratory brings accessibility to modern reproduction technology like never before to Australia’s eastern states’ beef herds. Vytelle’s hormone-free in vitro fertilisation process, including their proprietary media, will deliver high-quality embryos to producers allowing them to make more valuable calves, faster to maximise sustainability.

“Vytelle is the fastest growing bovine IVF company in the world,” commented Kerryann Kocher, CEO of Vytelle. She continued, “We are thrilled to open our doors in Brisbane, positioning Vytelle to serve 70% of the total beef herd in Australia from this location.”

 Vytelle has a long history in Australia through its Vytelle SENSE phenotypic data capture technology to measure and select for feed efficiency. With this investment, Vytelle is positioned to help Australian producers improve efficiencies and make faster genetic progress across the supply chain to consistently market more efficient and sustainable beef. “The large-scale adoption of IVF will be driven by the successful use of frozen embryos,” stated Andrew Donoghue, Regional Manager for Australia and New Zealand. He continued, “Unlike other technologies, the Vytelle system allows us to deliver frozen results producers can count on, providing reliable IVF to herds historically underserved with fresh programs.”

The Australian-based team is serving beef and dairy producers with on-farm ovum pick-ups immediately. Visit www.vytelle.com or contact Andrew Donoghue at andrew.donoghue@vytelle.com or +61 428 442 1555 to accelerate your herd’s genetic progress today.

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João Lourenço congratulates Emmanuel Macron on France’s national day

The Angolan Head of State, João Lourenço, has congratulated the people and government of France on the European country’s National Day, marked Friday, 14.

On a congratulatory message sent to President Emmanuel Macron, the Angolan Head of State stressed that the date symbolises the courage, patriotic and combative spirit of the French people “who have always had in the core of their aspirations the construction of a nation based on the principles of liberty, equality, fraternity and unity (…)”.

João Lourenço also wrote that France plays a key role in the international context, in which stand out initiatives turned to the resolution of sensitive problems resulting from comtemporary political, economic and financial relations.

The Angolan President also manifests the need to strengthen co-operation with France in vital areas, aiming at boosting the progress and development of Angola.

“Please do accept, Your Excellency, my wishes for good health, personal well-being and prosperity for the French nation”, he concluded.

France is one of Angola’s main economic partners of Angola, with a strong presence in the crude oil sector.

Over 70 French firms operate in Angola, thus providing about ten thousand jobs.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

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President recommends balance between local production and imports

Angolan head of State João Lourenço called for a balance between the increase in domestic production of the national industry and the need to import goods for supplying the industrial sector.

“We must promote ‘made in Angola’ because national production, not only offers a wider range of goods and services to citizens and the country in general, but also generate job for citizens, mainly for young people”, João Lourenço told the swearing in ceremony of the new minister of Industry and Trade, Rui Miguêns de Oliveira, on Friday in Luanda.

João Lourenço mentioned the economic diversification as “the biggest challenge the country faces at the moment, calling for the need to “promote and nurture” the national industry.

Alluding to the economic diversification, the head of State called for more engagement, despite effort being made in that direction.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

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Angolan government ensures payment of salaries

Angolan government said the country has money to pay salaries and other strategic expenses until the end of the current year.

This was confirmed by Secretary of State for Finance and Treasury, Ottoniel dos Santos, at a press conference of the Economic Commission.

The official added that in addition to salaries expense, there are conditions for payment of public debt service and other essentials, such as health, education (scholarship holders) and subsidies for veterans and former combatants.

In turn, the Minister of State for Economic Affairs, José de Lima Massano, reiterated the government commitment to pay the salaries of civil servants at the national level and in due time.

He recalled that the executive had paid the salaries in the month of June, without any delay, and that this month of July would not be different.

The Friday’s session of the Economic Commission of the Cabinet Council, chaired by the President João Lourenço, approved several emergency economic measures to address the cost of living in the country.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

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Angola to lower VAT on food from 14 to 7%

Angolan government will cut the Value Added Tax (VAT) on foodstuffs from 14 to 7%, the minister of State for Economic Coordination José de Lima Massano has said.

Speaking at the press conference, after the Cabinet Council’s Economic Commission meeting, the official said there are other measures to increase national production.

He mentioned among others, the financial support for production, tax simplification and improvement of the business environment.

VAT was implemented on July 1, 2019, with an initial and single rate of 14 percent, also coming into force for the first time, as part of the broad Tax Reform underway in the country.

The VAT Code provided for a single rate of 14% for all imports of goods and for all large taxpayers with income in excess of 15 million kwanzas, as well as large public companies and banking financial institutions.

Source: Angola Press News Agency (APNA)

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World Education pilots technology to boost reading skills of learners

World Education, an NGO, has started the pilot use of an educational technology to support former out-of-school girls to strengthen their English language proficiency using Google’s Read Along App.

A total of 65 girls, who underwent the Complementary Basic Education (CBE) programme under the Strategic Approaches to Girls’ Education project, and are currently pupils of Gburimani Ahmadiyya Primary School, Kpana Presby Primary School, and Nyankpala D/A Primary School in the Tolon District of the Northern Region, are benefiting from the pilot project.

Each day, the girls, supported by trained mentor teachers, practice for 15 minutes outside of school hours using educational tablets with an installed Google Read Along App, which provides stories aligned to their reading levels.

The Google Read Along App has over 1,000 stories in four readability levels in multiple languages, allowing children to play decoding, word recognition games, and read stories.

The App works completely offline and has no distracting advertisements or in-app purchases and leveraging Google’s text-to-speech recognition and artificial Intelligence, children practice reading while an online reading buddy ‘Diya’ provides immediate feedback and models fluency and pronunciation where needed.

The children are given rewards when they complete their daily exercises and progress to more difficult books.

Mr Stephen Konde, a Representative of World Education in the Northern Region, who visited the schools to monitor the girls as they practiced reading using the App, said the initiative became necessary because it was observed that the girls, after the CBE, faced challenges transitioning to school, because to the language of instruction in grade three and higher, was English.

Mr Konde said ‘So far, we have done one and a half months, and we have been doing an assessment to ascertain the progress that has been made.

‘We realised that girls, who were at the word level or letter level, have moved to word level. If somebody could say ‘A,’ it means the person is now able to pronounce a word, and if somebody was at that level of word, the person is now able to read a sentence. So, some have made progress.’

He said ‘Our plan is that if we get a good evaluation at the end of this three-month project, and we are fortunate to get funding, then we can look at the Tolon as a district to scale it up at that level. Then maybe after that we can look at how do we get it to the entire nation.’

Alhaji Alhassan Sumani, the Tolon District Director of Education, lauded the project saying it had come at an opportune time when they were trying to improve the reading skills of children in the area.

‘So, it is highly welcome because it will help us ensure that the young ones get the fundamentals to be able to read and improve upon instructions,’ he said.

Mr Adam Aziz, the Head Teacher of the Nyankpala D/A Primary School, said the initiative, saying it was helping the learners to read well. ‘For two months now, we have seen some form of improvement amongst the learners in terms of reading.’

Adamu Sulemana, one of the beneficiary girls, who is a pupil of Nyankpala D/A Primary School, said the App was a great support for her as she had seen improvement in her reading abilities.

Source: Ghana News Agency

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