SALEM: The Animal Husbandry Department organised a special veterinary camp at Veeranam near here on Wednesday.

Poultry farms of Sindh are running short of water due to the continued power outages, which has increased the risk of deaths of poultry birds and chicks in thousands.

Preeti Parashar

Chandigarh: In a first of its kind initiative, Haryana has approved a 6 mw power plant to be set up in Barwala (district Panchkula), where power will be generated from poultry waste.

It is ideal for small farmers

The government has approved a Rs. 150-crore poultry development scheme, which aims to help rural farmers to gain supplementary income from the poultry activities.
Sponsored scheme

Around 250 brick kilns pose a major health threat to 1.4 million inhabitants of this district by using unauthorised and poisonous fuel, Dawn has learned during a survey.

Restaurant chain McDonald's Europe launched a farming program on Thursday which could lead to cows getting weekly foot baths but water being saved in the production of lettuce and tomatoes.

The company, which has 6,600 restaurants in 40 European countries, is seeking to tackle a wide range of environmental and animal welfare issues through a flagship farm initiative.

India, the report points out, has vast resources of livestock, estimated at 485 million, and poultry at 489 million.

A significant slice of India

Chewing her cud on a recent sunny morning, Libby, a 1,400-pound Holstein, paused to do her part in the battle against global warming, emitting a fragrant burp.

Guy Choiniere, part of the Stonyfield Farm experiment, has seen methane drop by 18 percent.

Global health officials underestimated the risk that pig herds might be a source of new influenza strains, choosing instead to focus on the threat of bird flu, researchers in Mexico said on Thursday.

Raiganj, June 1: The number of poultry culled in the flu-struck Hemtabad block of North Dinajpur has far outstripped the target set by the district administration as villagers from outside the culling zone brought in birds for fear of the infection spreading.