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By Gargi Parsai
NEW DELHI, FEB.1. Even as the Food and Agriculture Organisation issued a warning about avian influenza (bird flu) virus remaining endemic in Asia, the Union Government has formulated regulatory guidelines on poultry feed and is moving towards making them mandatory, besides setting up certifying agencies and testing laboratories. The FAO and the World Animal Health Organisation have warned that the tsunami disaster may worsen the bird flu situation in Asia due to large-scale movement of birds.
Expert mission
FAO is sending an expert mission to Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives this week to assess the livestock sector loss and rehabilitation needs. "The new wave of avian influenza outbreaks in Viet Nam and Thailand clearly shows that the avian virus remains endemic in Asia and that affected countries need to do more to keep it under control,'' the agencies' joint statement said today. The meeting of the newly-constituted Central Poultry Development Advisory Council here tomorrow — after five years — will finalise the guidelines for poultry feed and decide on whether they should be made legally binding to bring them on par with the Codex Alimentarius Commission and other agencies under the World Trade Organisation. The guidelines have been formulated in consultation with the Bureau of Indian Standards, the Compound Livestock Feed Manufacturers Associations (CLFMA), the National Dairy Research Institute and the Ministry of Health and Food Processing Industries. The regulations also assess the residual affect of various toxic substances in poultry feed, including poultry products. The meeting, to be chaired by the Agriculture Minister, Sharad Pawar, will also discuss whether poultry can be treated as agriculture. It will also take up issues of rural backyard poultry, contract farming, export promotion, modernised poultry processing and training of manpower. It will come up with recommendations on cross-breeding of indigenous birds, particularly the one found in tribal areas of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Rajasthan, with exotic breeds for higher yield and improved germplasm. Both private and unorganised sector form the intensive poultry sector.
Top egg producer
India now ranks among the top five nations in egg production and 10th in broiler output in the world. It has a poultry population of 440.7 million with an annual egg production of about 41 billion and broiler production of 1260 million at an estimated cost of Rs. 15,000 crores. In the 10th Plan, it was decided to club all the existing 13 poultry development organisations into four region-wise centres to convert poultry development activities into a single-window and strengthen existing poultry farms, including species such as ducks, turkey, quails, and guinea fowl.
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