LUCKNOW: After tasting success in elevating the health standards of the state through Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) workers, state government will appoint women to take care of state's livestock. Designated as Ladies Livestock Link Worker (LLLW), they will be operational at village level. Working under the local veterinary officers, nearly 36,000 LLLWs will be appointed in four years.

UNHEALTHY TREND: Kids take mid-day meal in very unhygienic environment with a dog around in a Phulbani school

SALEPUR: Irked by the supply of rotten eggs in their mid-day meal (MDM) under the government scheme, students of different primary schools in Salepur, Mahanga and Nischintakoili blocks threw away the eggs in protest.

Surinder Sud / New Delhi August 31, 2009, 0:23 IST

Detection of the H1N1 influenza virus in turkey birds in Chile has heightened the danger of poultry farms elsewhere also getting infected with this pandemic virus, which has already killed nearly 90 people in India and over 2,000 persons worldwide.

MIRZA : The economic contribution made by the lakhs of poor people working in the backyard poultry units towards running the rural households is crucial. Indispensable part of almost every family, the non-descript local variety both of fowl and duck reared with zero input cost has ensured the nutritional requirement to the underprivileged section to some extent.

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: The detection of H1N1 virus in turkeys in Chile has raised concerns about poultry farms elsewhere in the world also becoming infected with the pandemic flu virus, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Thursday.

Starting with a worst-case scenario of lead contamination of soil, a scientist at Mie University in Japan has demonstrated the use of poultry waste amendment in combination with plant growth to immobilize soil Pb and restore degraded vegetation in shooting range sites.

The rural women of Gumla are scripting a story in self-reliance in their backyards. Not very long ago, they were farm labourers who were forced to migrate to bigger cities in search of work when acres of land in the rain-dependent rice belt remained barren for nearly six months every year.

The Union health ministry along with US-AID is doing a project in seven districts in the state to identify susceptible areas of Avian Flu and measures that could be taken to prevent the spread of the disease.