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Coal oven keeps chickens warm, helps community
-Tigga’s innovation has given fresh lease of life to poultry farming in Torpa & brought her laurels, too
SANTOSH K. KIRO
Mary Tigga with husband Bipin and children. Picture by Prashant Mitra
- Date:
- 02/01/2009
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- Telegraph (Ranchi)
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State to take up post-operative surveillance to check bird flu
SHILLONG: The Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Department (AHVD) will conduct post-operative surveillance on fowls in areas from three to ten kilometers of Meghalaya's side of Khanapara on December 29 to collect samples to see if bird flu has spread to local poultry from Assam.
- Date:
- 26/12/2008
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- Shillong Times (Shillong)
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Culling again in flu zone
Culling will resume in the bird flu-hit areas of Malda tomorrow, two days after the government announced the job was over.
Animal resource development director Kamala Kanta Saha, who was here today to see how well the job had been done, saw chickens hopping around, instead.
“The mop-up operation will continue for the next three months,” he said while going around Narhatta.
- Date:
- 24/12/2008
- Source:
- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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Flu: ARD does too little, too late
At a time when Bird Flu outbreaks are being reported in the state, the state government failed to send blood samples to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL) in Bhopal for confirmation of the disease. It may be mentioned here an above average mortality of poultry birds was reported from Bankura a couple of days back.
- Date:
- 23/12/2008
- Source:
- Statesman (Kolkata)
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Culling under directive from Centre: Govt
State Government today reiterated its assertion that it has been conducting anti-bird flu drive in response to the instructions issued by the Union Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries after the poultry samples sent from the State tested positive of the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus at the Bhopal-based High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL).
- Date:
- 23/12/2008
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- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Bird flu scare: Balasore refuses to chicken out
BALASORE: Even as the district veterinary officials have culled nearly 4,000 chicks here, that were illegaly transported from West Bengal, locals are hardly scared of the possible outbreak of bird flu.
- Date:
- 22/12/2008
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- New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
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Dairy farmers learn vet skills
Chatamli (Ropar): The proverbial “teeka” used to inseminate cows has always stood as an ultimate symbol in the dairy world of Punjab.
- Date:
- 16/12/2008
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- Tribune (New Delhi)
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Culling over at 3 locations
Culling operations for creating bird-free zones have been completed in three locations of the State. Bird-free zones are sought to be created in an area of three-kilometre radius around the places from where occurrence of bird flu is reported. So far nine locations in six districts of the State have reported occurrence of the dreaded disease.
- Date:
- 16/12/2008
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- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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5000 birds dead in one week, claim villagers - Blood samples of chickens sent to Bhopal for tests
Over 500 chickens have died since yesterday morning in Budhia village of Malda, even as the district administration has sent blood samples of dead birds to the High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal for tests.
- Date:
- 15/12/2008
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- Telegraph (Kolkata)
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Culling continues in Meghalaya
Culling of birds continued in Meghalaya for the second day today as reports on the tests of blood samples of birds from Assam-Meghalaya border villages in Ri Bhoi district were yet to reach the State capital.
- Date:
- 15/12/2008
- Source:
- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
