3-Month Ban on Poultry Farming In Bird Flu-Affected Areas of Puri Dist

Puri: A three-month ban on poultry farming has been imposed in the bird flu-affected areas of the Puri district by the Animal Husbandry Department of the Odisha government.

According to the order of the Animal Husbandry Department, poultry farming will be stopped in Pipili, Delang, Nimapada, and Satyabadi areas where cases of bird flu were reported.

The notification further stated that poultry should not be farmed within 1 km of any infected area and poultry products should not be sent or sold within a radius of 1 km to 10 km. In addition, chicken samples will be tested once in 15 days and further measures would be initiated if the tests prove positive for H5N1 virus.

Animal Husbandry department had sealed off 55 farms out of 861 poultry farms in Pipili block and 64 farms out of 344 farms in Delang block following the outbreak of bird flu this year.