Participants were trained on how to respond to cases of suspected avian flu outbreaks both in chicken and human cases, including those who have been exposed to it. Local government units in Oriental Negros will beef up their avian flu preparedness and response efforts after a series of planning workshops conducted by the Provincial Veterinary Office. Provincial Veterinarian Antonio Mutia and LGU representatives were urged to pass and approve a local ordinance to make their avian flu...

The norms set under contract farming by the companies, the farmers added, were in sharp contrast to the routine farming where mortality rate of the birds goes beyond 10 percent, expenditure on medicine sometimes exceeds Rs five per bird, and cost on labor, sawdust, and electricity is more than Rs 3. Many poultry farmers toldGreater Kashmir that in contract farming the conditions that the companies prescribe to the farmers are difficult. It is ironic that our state has not learned anything...

Cushing, who juggles a hectic lifestyle that includes a myriad of projects, including her own line of olive oil and tomato sauces, as well as a new cookbook called Pure Food coming out this fall, says she thoroughly researched the poultry industry before taking on her ambassadorship. Cushing, who juggles a hectic lifestyle that includes a myriad of projects, including her own line of olive oil and tomato sauces, as well as a new cookbook called Pure Food coming out this fall, says she...

The small family farm is vanishing, being replaced by large, multi-level operations specializing in different elements of farming such as dairy and beef, or poultry and egg operations. There are now more than 5,900 farms across Canada with gross receipts in excess of $1 million, a whopping 27 per cent increase in just five years. Bigger farms bring in more money, but also cost more to run, so the census is somewhat misleading when it points to the number of million-dollar farming...

Chickens have been part of rural backyards long before poultry became an industry. The idea was to keep the benefits of poultry within the countryside while making it more profitable for the housewives who rear the chickens. Poultry corporate Keggfarms has returned to these very backyards as part of its rural poultry programme. This was achieved by genetically breeding high-yielding chickens, called kuroilers, and supplying them to the village women. Vinod Kapur, the 72-year-old founder of...

Third in a series of reports on deadling with the threat from avian influenza. Yet people often do not follow the rules about preventing bird flu. What happens if you follow all these rules and someone in your family gets sick? How will you know if it is bird flu? People who could be infected with the bird flu virus will have difficulty breathing. Most bird flu cases in human beings have resulted from people touching infected farm birds, such as chickens, ducks or turkeys. The government...

The Punjab poultry industry, which was ranked first in India in 1984, has dropped to the seventh due to what farmers' term as the anti-poultry attitude of the government. Punjab poultry farmers see big market players as threat to their industry. Agitated poultry farmers claim that they experiencing huge losses due to natural calamities and with the presence of mega companies. Punjab is the first state in the country to introduce contract farming at the government level. The Punjab poultry...

Besides the H5N1 vaccine approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in April, "a number of the most advanced candidate vaccines against H5N1 avian influenza might be registered within six months to two years," the WHO said in a question-and-answer bulletin on pandemic flu vaccines. Besides the H5N1 vaccine approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in April, "a number of the most advanced candidate vaccines against H5N1 avian influenza might be registered within six months to two...

Many have only started to recover after losing their flock to bird flu and now they must sit and wait to see which rivers crest first. Poultry farmers are growing frustrated with what little they can do to prepare. He says the unpredictability of the rivers are frustrating for farmers who are trying to organize a way out for their chickens, but many cannot be moved, and if and when the water rises, many flocks will be lost. News1130 Meteorologist Russ Lacate agrees with flood forecasters...