The Livestock and Rural Community Development Ministry will enhance the livestock production in the country to achieve self-sufficiency in livestock products by 2016, Livestock and Rural Community Development Ministry Secretary A H Gamage said.

He said that it was necessary to produce 740 million litres of milk, 200,000 metric tonnes of poulty and 2,000 million eggs annually to be self sufficie

An Indian poultry breed, called Kadaknath is native to Jhabua district of Madhya Pradesh.
The breed is famous for its black meat known for its quality, texture and flavour.

It will take at least 10 years to eradicate the H5N1 bird flu virus, which has killed scores of humans, from poultry in the six countries where it is endemic, a UN agency said on April 21.

New Delhi: Antibiotic shots, being used at will to make chickens fatter or shrimps bigger, will be soon regularized.
For the first time, National Policy for Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance has put a cap on how much antibiotics can be pumped into seafood or poultry products, including shrimps or fish and fishery products.

The policy has named common antibiotics like tetracycline

The fast-depleting groundwater table in Punjab has already raised concerns of desertification. Now, scientists are warning of possible

Animal Husbandry Minister Ajay Vishnoi has said that along with progress in the animal husbandry sector, several diseases have also come to the fore like bird flu. There is a need to train Animal Husbandry Department

Surveillance throughout Tripura has been intensified to monitor further spread of bird flu infection after laboratory tests confirmed H5 strains in the poultry samples collected from state poultry farm, Gandhigram, official sources today said.

Tests conducted at ERDDL, Kolkata and High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal have confirmed that the samples from the State poultry farm

AGARTALA, March 7: H5 strains of avian influenza have been confirmed in the poultry samples collected from State Poultry Farm at Gandhigram, Agartala, Tripura.

The samples collected from the infected site were forwarded to the ERDDL, Kolkata and High Security Animal Disease Laboratory (HSADL), Bhopal for testing.

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.