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(1) Prudence Ho with Jason Gale, A Case of Chicken vs Machine.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/a ... ep-chickens-healthy
("About 3 million laying hens raised near Beijing by the Bangkok-based conglomerate [Charoen Pokphand Group] get daily checkups from machines dubbed “nanny robots.” The sensor-filled humanoids, perched atop a base with wheels, roll through a massive complex of windowless coops for 12 hours a day, monitoring the fowls’ temperatures and movements. Human colleagues pluck feverish or immobile birds from their cage")
Note:
(a) summary underneath the title in print: To assure food purity, a Chinese poultry processor uses "nanny robots" to monitor bird health
(b)
(i) Charoen Pokphand Group 正大集团
"two brothers, Chia Ek Chor [谢易初] and Chia Siew Whooy [谢少飞], who arrived in Thailand from China [汕頭] in 1919. The Chia brothers began importing seeds from China and in 1921 set up a small shop in Bangkok's Chinatown district. The original name of the business was Chia Thai Co 正大. The brothers expanded the operation, importing vegetables as well, to meet the demand of Bangkok's growing Chinese population. Before long, Chia Thai launched an export wing, sending pigs and eggs to Hong Kong. By the 1950s, the brothers' children had joined the business, and the company began looking for expansion opportunities. Chia Thai, which became known under the Thai name of Charoen Pokphand"
Read more: http://www.referenceforbusiness. ... Pokphand-Group.html
(ii) Dhanin Chearavanont (10): A New Name and a New Job. Nikkei Asian Review (whose Japanese name is spelled in katakana), Sept 10, 2016 (under the heading My Personal History).
http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/ ... -name-and-a-new-job
three consecutive paragraphs:
"Chia Tai, founded by my father, started out as a seed shop. My uncle managed the store in his absence * * *
"My oldest brother, Jaran, and next-oldest brother, Montri, had finished their studies in China's Sichuan Province and returned to Bangkok. In 1953, my oldest brother launched a feed business. The thinking was to expand the scope of the family business while maintaining its focus on agriculture. He called his company Charoen Pokphand Store.
"It was his wife's foster father, a Thai general, who named the new business. 'Charoen is a Thai word meaning prosperity, while 'pokphand' indicates farm produce and goods for the masses.
* Dhanin CHEARAVANONT (谢国民; 1939- ; chairman and CEO of CP Group; his father was Chia Ek Chor; The same Nikkei page explains how his Thai name came about) |
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