Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is now recognized as a major global public health problem which has been aggravated by the irrational use of antimicrobial agents in human and animal health as well as the presence of these agents in the environment. AMR in animal pathogens makes disease treatments ineffective, increases the …
AGARTALA, March 6: Fresh cases of avian influenza or bird flu have been detected in another Tripura poultry farm, and culling of birds is expected to start on Monday, an official said here on Sunday.
Industrial food animal production employs many of the same antibiotics or classes of antibiotics that are used in human medicine. These drugs can be administered to food animals in the form of free-choice medicated feeds (FCMF), where animals choose how much feed to consume. Routine administration of these drugs to …
The bird flu scare has again come back to hit the sale of chicken and eggs in East Godavari district. The departments concerned including animal husbandry, medical and health are on high alert and have started precautionary steps including collection of blood samples of all abnormal dead birds, which has …
Namakkal: For the first time, a team of 13 persons from eight African countries came to India for a two-week international training programme on small hold livestock and commercial poultry farming that concluded on Sunday. Assistant Director General, Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), Dr. V. Venkatasubramanian told The Hindu …
Bird flu has struck the country again. This time at the State Duck Breeding Farm in Agartala that has been ordered to cull all poultry within a radius of three kilometres of the farm. The State will also impose a ban on movement of poultry and its products and order …
Barely eight months after India declared itself free from avian influenza (bird flu) in June 2010, this fatal and highly contagious disease has resurfaced in Tripura. Samples of sick poultry birds from the government duck farm at R K Nagar in Agartala were yesterday found to contain H5 strain of …
The Department of Environment yesterday sealed three factories at the city's Hazaribagh and arrested its owners for using toxic tannery-waste in poultry and fish feeds. A DoE team, in a surprise raid at MK Enterprise, Zeko Fine Leather and Amir Multi Food, found workers filling sacks with dried up tannery …
Antimicrobial resistance in pathogens causing important communicable diseases has become a matter of great public health concern globally including our country. Resistance has emerged even to newer, more potent antimicrobial agents like carbapenems. The factors responsible for this are widespread use and availability of practically all the antimicrobials across the …
SURI, 27 DEC: The district animal resource development (ARD) department has begun vaccinating country chickens as part of its anti-bird flu measure. The department has engaged self-help groups (SHG) from various blocks to do the job. The ARD department started the vaccination programme after temperature started dipping from the middle …
The poultry industry in Haryana is set for a major makeover. A US-based company is setting up a Rs 65-crore project in Barwala, which is home to one of the largest poultry belts in the country, to generate power using hen droppings. Where generating power from hen litter is concerned, …
Thiruvananthapuram: As many as 100 farmers across the district will soon become partners in an integrated livestock development programme to enhance the production of milk, eggs and meat. The project is expected to become fully functional this month. The farmers, to be grouped into 10 units, will be supplied with …
GUWAHATI, Dec 2: The slow but steady move of some multinational companies to make a foray into the poultry farming industry of Assam, has become a cause of concern for the local poultry farmers. Addressing a press conference today in Guwahati, Kamrup District Poultry Farmers
Main focus of the livestock development policy is to augment farmers income through accelerated growth of livestock sector. Main objectives are: Two fold increase in livestock production in next 8-10 years formeeting internal demand and for export; Increasing productivity along with improvement in quality of products; and Augmenting farmers income.
The union health ministry is finalising the national antibiotics policy to check indiscriminate use of drugs. The move comes close on the heels of the detection of multi-drug resistant bacteria, dubbed superbug, in foreign patients who underwent treatment in India and Pakistan; it was reported in The Lancet Infectious Diseases …
Godrej Agrovet Ltd, the agri-business arm of leading conglomerate Godrej Ltd, has planned to enter the dairy farming business. It is in talks with at least two leading Israeli dairy farm technology providers. While Godrej Agrovet did not respond to an email query from Business Standard, representatives of the Israeli …
