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POULTRY PUNCH NEWS

POULTRY PRODUCTS DO NOT SPREAD

CORONAVIRUS; POULTRY INDUSTRY SEEKS TO

ALLAY CONCERNS OVER COVID 19

arch 2020: With the and maize which are used in preparing spreads primarily through contact with an
coronavirus threat generating chicken feed have dropped. infected person wherein saliva droplets
Mpanic among the masses and All of this is because the prices of generated from the mouth or nose during
significantly impacting poultry sales, the chicken have plunged to Rs 10-30 per kg at coughing or sneezing are exchanged.
poultry industry in India has sought to allay farm gate level due to a slump in demand It is important that people do not fall
concerns over the disease’s association while the average cost of production is Rs for false rumours and verify all such claims
with chicken and other birds. 80 per kg as per All India Poultry Breeders before believing in them,” said Dr Ramdas
Union Minister of Animal Husbandry, Association. This is because of the Kambale, Senior Vice President, Vetphage
Dairying and Fishing has admitted that the widespread rumors and fake news being pharmaceuticals, a leading provider of
poultry industry was losing Rs 1500-2000 circulated on social media platforms about safe and antibiotic-free bacterial disease
crore daily. Moreover, sales of companies how eating chicken can cause coronavirus. solutions for the poultry industry.
that provide equipment to poultry industry “Although Coronavirus is a serious health In a viral video a poultry farmer in
like feeding systems, ventilators and water threat, fake news and rumors about how Karnataka was seen burying hundreds of
systems have also decreased in the past consuming chicken or other meat products chickens alive after steep fall in prices due
one month. can spread the dreaded disease are being to coronavirus scare. The farmers whose
Officials from poultry feed companies spread. All such claims are baseless. poultry batch is ready are worried as they
have also admitted that sales of soybean COVID 19 is a respiratory disease which don’t know what to do with the matured

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