Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray’s death brought Mumbai to a standstill a couple of weeks ago.

A spate of avian flu outbreaks in the last few years has dashed India’s hopes of becoming a major egg exporter.

A group of students from Frontline Academy Matriculation Higher Secondary School here has come out with a handy waste-converter model that can turn the poultry farm wastes and meat wastes from slaughter houses into biogas.

L. Pugazharasi, A. Jagadeesshwari, Bharath Kumar, R. Satieesh and S. Chandru, all Class XI students, who developed the gadget using a bag made of strong flexible waterproofed canvas and fitted with inlet and outlet valves, told The Hindu that the project was aimed at creating awareness among poultry farm owners and farmers about generation of biogas from such wastes and thereby, keep the poultry farms and slaughter house premise free of stench.

Sultanate of Oman became the first country to ban poultry products from India since avian influenza commonly known as bird flu was reported a week ago from Bangalore.

The ever-busy Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) and Training Institute will now be without any activity as its entire stock of poultry has been culled.

The Institute will now have to wait for at least three months to renew its activities. An uneasy calm prevails at CPDO as the Avian Influenza, which proved disastrous, has rendered it jobless. The institute, known for business activities, research and training, will remain without any breeding activity or business until it is declared disease-free and safe to breed and rear birds.

As many as 120 chicken died on Sunday and 86 chicken and 17 ducks on Saturday

Over 220 chicken and ducks have died at Central Poultry Development Organisation (CPDO) at Hesaragatta here, where avian influenza (H5N1) had claimed over 3,600 turkeys over the last fortnight. “Mortality among the chicken and ducks are also reported from CPDO,” secretary in the Animal Husbandry Department, Arvin Ramachandra Jannu, said. As many as 120 chicken died yesterday and 86 chicken and 17 ducks on Saturday.

Nabard website says birds bankable, economic value of a pair Rs 16 lakh

The Union government was giving interest-free loans to ‘entrepreneurs’ setting up emu farms, which have now turned into a multi-crore scam in Tamil Nadu. These loans were granted under the central government’s Poultry Venture Capital Fund and were routed through the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (Nabard) and commercial banks. Though the scheme was for all poultry, emus find a mention in the scheme documents and several emu farms in southern states, including Tamil Nadu, have availed themselves of loans under these schemes, say officials.

The H5N1 avian flu virus has been detected in the city of Zhanjiang in South China's Guangdong province, experts confirmed on Tuesday.

Chandigarh: After its experiments with setting up a solar power hatchery to breed chicks did not yield the desired results, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) have launched a

KOLKATA, 14 SEPT: The state animal resources development (ARD) department will start a livestock census tomorrow.