Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Duck farming is gaining popularity in Mymensingh, with both the poor and rich people getting involved in the business. The poor and middle-class families are doing the business by taking loan from different non-governmental organisations and the government's cooperative department. The rich are involved in the business as lenders to …
CHENNAI: A team of researchers from the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University has successfully produced an improved vaccine for combating anthrax attack on cattle. Vice-Chancellor P. Thangaraju said the improved vaccine, based on montanide, would be animal-friendly. The glycerine-based vaccine used on cattle earlier, at times resulted in …
Madikeri: Small and medium farmers of the district facing financial crisis will get 2,000 mixed breed cows under the Prime Ministers Vidarbha Special Package, a scheme of the Central government to prevent farmers suicides. Animal Husbandry Department Deputy Director Dr M T Manjunath told Deccan Herald that the decision was …
Hyderabad, July 22: Illegal abattoirs are causing pollution at Amberpet, New Bhoiguda and Gowlipura localities. Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation authorities (GHMC) have claimed that over 700 cases were booked in the last three months and Rs 1.5 lakh fine was collected from the violators. However, abattoir owners alleged that the …
In a city where the number of homeless people is fast rising and humans have a hard time procuring the basic necessities of life, a facility that caters to the needs of animals appears to be a distant dream. And yet an animal shelter has been taking care of animals …
Activists, professors and students came together on Monday to hold a candlelight rally at Jantar Mantar against the killing of a stray dog by a student in JNU on July 7. They were demanding that JNU should bar the student from submitting his thesis and launch an animal protection movement.
The state government would establish 500 animal husbandry development centres in nine districts. These centres would be opened under a five-year project costing Rs 51 crore 95 lakh in Ratlam, Badwani, Dhar, Raisen, Sidhi, Satna, Panna, Ashok Nagar and Guna districts. The project would be conducted jointly by Veterinary Services …
Reports that cattle have been struck by different kinds of disease in Canacona and Ponda talukas is disturbing news for the 180-odd dairy societies in the state, as well as for the Goa Dairy, which already imports most of its milk from neighbouring Maharashtra and Karnataka. A mysterious disease has …
Kolar: Members of District Poultry Farmers Welfare Association staged a dharna in front of deputy commissioners office here on Wednesday demanding the government to meet their several demands. The protesters said that income from poultry farming offsets the loss that farmers sustain in agriculture. The avocation provides employment to thousands …
UDHAMPUR : Sheep Husbandry Department has recorded over 4 lakh kg mutton production in district Udhampur during first quarter of the current fiscal. To provide treatment to sheep and goat population and prevent spread of contagious and non-contagious diseases, the department has dosed over 68,000 sheep population, vaccinated 18,400 and …
A free dog vaccination camp was organised by Blue Cross Society, Assam recently on the occasion of "World Zoonosis Day' in the Teaching Veterinary Complex, College of Veterinary Science, Assam Agricultural University, Khanapara. The World Zoonosis Day is celebrated to create awareness about the diseases communicable to animals to human …
Rajahmundry, July 8: In a major shift, upland farmers find it more remunerative to rear a special breed of cows which gives more milk instead of farming in East Godavari. Farmers from upland areas always find it difficult to raise crops as their sources of irrigation are mainly borewells and …
A training camp to train up veterinary doctors, field assistants and Rapid Response Team members of all the veterinary dispensaries of Goalpara district on bird-flu ended at Goalpara on July 4, said Veterinary Officer of the district Dr K K Dutta. The Government of India-sponsored training camp was joined by …
Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a potential new weapon against avian flu. Researchers have immunized experimental animals against various strains of the virus by delivering vaccine via DNA constructed to build antigens against flu, along with a minute electric pulse. Such an approach could …
Migratory birds are mainly responsible for the outbreak of avian influenza (AI) or bird flu in the country, according to a study report. The report said that migratory birds might be responsible for initial introduction of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute (BLRI), Bangladesh Agriculture …
The provincial government has transferred an official of the livestock department from Swabi to Mardan as punishment for allegedly disclosing that H5N1 strain of bird flu influenza had been detected in a poultry farm of the district, sources told Dawn. They claimed that on the advice of a local MPA, …
Livestock population in the province is increasing at a rate 2.3 percent to 2.7 percent annually, said Director, Sindh Animal Husbandry, Dr Ghulam Sarwar Shaikh. Talking to journalists here on Thursday, he attributed the growth to better disease control measures, improved veterinary services, training of farmers and increase in outreach …
While the population of cattle is going down in the state, the milk production has gone up. According to the latest census, there has been a decrease of 16.56 per cent and 13.62 per cent in the buffalo and cow population, respectively, in the state. On the other hand, the …
