Developing Modern Livestock Production in Tropical Countries

The Animal Production International Seminar (APIS) is the first international conference held by the Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Brawijaya. APIS was held for the first time in 2010 and was repeated every three years. In 2022, the 5th APIS was organized as an online meeting. The Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Brawijaya, is optimistic that the results of the 5th APIS will just be as successful as the 4th APIS in 2019. The theme of 5th APIS was "Developing Modern Livestock Production in Tropical Countries". The 5th APIS discussed matters related to strategies for developing modern livestock production in several tropical countries. The participants of 5th APIS, including keynote speakers and invited speakers, are from various countries (tropical and sub-tropical). These proceedings present the selected papers from the 5th APIS conference. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Danung Nur Adli is a lecturer at the Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia. He has a background in Animal Science, received a bachelor degree (SPt.) from Brawijaya University in 2017 and was appointed best graduated student of Brawijaya University in 2017. He continued at Brawijaya University and earned his Master Degree (MPt.). He attended the Joint degree program at the National Pingtung University Science and Technology (NPUST), Taipei from 2018-2019 with GPA 3.92 (MPt.) [Cumlaude] and Summa-Cumlaude 4.00 NPUST (MSc.). He is presently a career advisor as well as reviewer for journals like Poultry Science, Livestock Science, Scientific African, Frontiers in Veterinary, Journal Animal Feed Science, Animals. He is well-known as focusing on meta-analysis and several articles have been published in Poultry Science (Elsevier); Journal of Animal Feed Science (Poland), F1000 Research (Taylor and Francis), Sustainability (MDPI, Switzerland), Animals (MDPI, Switzerland) with H-index Scopus 10. Muhammad Pramujo is a lecturer in the Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia. He is of Animal Science background, received a bachelor degree and master degree from IPB University, gained experience at a short course abroad in Ibaraki University, Japan and has expertise in Molecular Biology. Aulia Puspita Anugra Yekti is a lecturer in the Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia. With an Animal Science background, focusing on animal reproduction and molecular in animals. She received a bachelor degree (S.Pt) from Universitas Brawijaya and a Master degree from National Chiayi University, Taiwan (M.Sc) and Universitas Brawijaya (MP). Currently, she is PhD candidate in the doctoral program in the Faculty of Animal Science, Universitas Brawijaya, and working on research on sexed sperm in dairy cattle. With expertise in Animal reproduction and biotechnology, she has published several articles in Zebrafish, the American Journal of Animal and Veterinary Science, the Indian Journal of Animal Research, and nine books published with UB Press.

Animal production Animal nutrition Animal reproduction and breeding Animal product and agribusiness Livestock engineering