DHAKA: Bird flu has spread to six poultry farms near Bangladesh s capital, the government said yesterday, sparking a nationwide alert. The government has taken aggressive measures to stop the spread of the disease and that WHO has confidence it (the government) would be able to limit the spread, she told the same news conference. The government has banned transport of poultry from affected areas, imposed constant monitoring of poultry farms across the country by joint forces led by the...

Urban sprawl threatens farms; Rural land disappearing, report says Jordan Press / Whig-Standard Staff Writer Local news - Tuesday, April 10, 2007 @ 09:00 The proliferation of countryside homes and weekend getaways in the city's rural areas may choke the life out of Kingston's farming industry, according to a new report. Urban sprawl threatens farms; Rural land disappearing, report says Jordan Press / Whig-Standard Staff Writer Local news - Tuesday, April 10, 2007 @ 09:00 The proliferation...

Council farms have traditionally been used as grazing pastures and to dispose, through irrigation, of partially treated effluent from Firle and Crowborough treatment plants. The council had identified dairy farming, piggery, poultry, stockfeed production, cropping, meat processing, stock breeding and pet food processing as some of the commercial activities that could be embarked upon. Premier Banking Corporation has come in with the loans to finance the expansion of the agricultural...

CHENNAI: Egg is newest commodity on the block to get branded, thanks to Coimbatore-based vertically integrated poultry major Suguna Poultry Farm which is hitherto tapping the unbranded egg market across the country. This apart, the company is also set to launch a range of designer eggs for the beauty conscious and persons affected with diabetes and heart-disease next week. On the designer eggs to be introduced soon, he said scientific method is adopted for nurturing the layer with the...

Top Bands To Recreate Beatles' An expert said that in areas where poultry farms are particularly close together, like Norfolk in the UK, it would be difficult to impose measures in time to stop one farm infecting at least one other, and that two or three others will be affected within a week. Wednesday, 4th April 2007, 08:33 Category:Healthy Living A bird flu outbreak could spread from one farm to dozens of others within weeks unless a mass cull of infected and healthy poultry was carried...