Poultry

All mainstream poultry diseases can be prevented through relevant vaccination at the correct age and stage in a bird’s life. (Image source: Petrov 2012/Flickr)

Vacccination is an essential part of commercial poultry production but continues to remain accessible only to big farmers due to high cost involved and limited availability of vaccines

Feed demand from Chinas poultry industry may slump 20 per cent in the second quarter of 2013 from a year earlier after a bird flu outbreak in the country

The Chinese poultry industry has been hit by a new strain of bird flu, H7N9 virus, which has already resulted in the culling of more than 20,000 birds in eastern China and surrounding areas

Indonesia has outlined plans to attain self-sufficiency in poultry and beef sectors to meet the growing demand in the sectors