INDIA - As temperatures reach high levels in India this week, poultry keepers have been reminded to ensure birds have access to a cool drinking water supply to prevent mortality.

BRAZIL - Brazil's poultry meat production for 2016 is now expected to increase by 3 per cent in 2016 to 13.5 million metric tons (MT), after record production levels of 13.1 million MT were reached last year, according to the latest report from the US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS).

Founded 25 years ago by the two managing partners – Nitin Sahasrabudhe, a chemical engineer and Milind Limaye, a veterinary microbiologist - Polchem employs 270 people and has established a strong reputation for service through a team of field-based veterinarians backed up with first class diagnostic and laboratory support.

NEW DELHI: India has cancelled a tender to import 240,000 tonnes of corn, trade and government sources said, hoping for a bigger-than-expected local summer harvest and following uncertainty over the availability of non-genetically modified corn as demanded. 

With hot weather prevailing, the temperature has crossed 102.2 degree Fahrenheit here on Thursday. A press release from Agromet Field Unit of Veterinary College and Research Institute and Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai said that the maximum and minimum temperatures are 102.2 degree Fahrenheit and 84.2 degree Fahrenheit. With wind speed around 5 km per hour, mostly from southeast direction, humidity is between 30 to 72 per cent.

India's wholesale prices remained in negative territory for the 16th straight month in February at -0.91% as compared to -0.90% (provisional) for the previous month and -2.17% during the corresponding month of the previous year. Build up inflation rate in the financial year so far was -1.19% compared to a build up rate of -2.61% in the corresponding period of the previous year.

Ahmedabad: Consumer Education and Research Center (CERC),a leading consumer rights organisation in India, has written to McDonald’s, Subway and KFC calling on them to stop serving meat and poultry from animals routinely given antibiotics used in human medicine.

With heat stress expected to affect poultry birds, farmers were asked to supplement feed with electrolytes and amino acids.A press release from Agromet Field Unit of the Veterinary College and Research Institute and Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, said that maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to be 98.6 degree Fahrenheit and 75.2 degree Fahrenheit respectively in the next four days.

India has 1.23 billion people and the number is growing every year. The focus is on “Development” meaning Good Food, Better Health & Living conditions to everyone. People spend more money on food when they earn more. Healthy food at attractive price will be the issue in focus. Eggs and chicken are accepted by all communities and are available at the most reasonable prices. Within a span of 25 years, the egg production has gone up to 70 billion from few millions and the broiler production has gone to 3.8 million tonne from nowhere. Poultry is the most organised sector in animal agriculture, worth rupees one lakh crores. The growth is 6-8% in layers and 10-12% in broilers per year against the growth of agriculture as a whole which is around 2.5%.

The research project on developing nano bio-composites and bio-plastic from poultry waste by Dhoolappa Melinamani, associate professor with College of Veterinary Sciences, Shivamogga, has received a special award at 8th India Nano international conference in Bengaluru. The event was organised by Department of Science and Technology. The disposal of chicken feather waste had proved to be a major challenge. The project has proposed to use the feathers productively by converting them into nano bio-composites and bio-plastic.

BUDGAM, MARCH 07: With a view to increase the poultry production in the state, the Co-operative Department has setup 57 poultry Projects with an investment of Rs 14 crore so far in various parts of the State.

This was revealed by the Registrar Cooperatives, Peerzada Mushtaq Ahmad today during his inspection of several poultry projects set up in Budgam district.

Oilmeals exports fell by 74 per cent to 53,866 tonnes last month due to a sharp fall in soyabean and rapeseed meal shipments, industry body SEA said today. The country had shipped 2,08,436 tonnes of oilmeals, used as animal feed, in the same period last year. 

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Though temperatures have reduced, poultry farmers were asked to continue supplementation of Vitamin C and electrolytes through feed and drinking water to improve heat tolerance in birds.A press release from Agromet Field Unit of Veterinary College and Research Institute and Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai, said that the sky would be partly cloudy and remain dry in the next four days.

Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) on Friday launched a livelihood development programme for tribespeople in the district, as part of the Tribal Development Project conceptualised in a prospective plan workshop ‘Wayanad 2030’ in 2013.

The two-day-long Krishi Mahotsav, organised by district administration, Agriculture Technology Management Agency (ATMA) and Agriculture department, concluded on Thursday. Ten maize farmers, who participated in online trading of the crop, were felicitated. This is the first time that online trading of maize is being implemented in the State.

Maize prices closed higher by 1.06 per cent on Tuesday at the National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX) as a result of a rise in the demand from exporters and poultry industries. At the NCDEX, maize futures for March 2016 contract closed at Rs. 1,428 per quintal, up by 1.06 per cent, after opening at Rs. 1,414 against the previous closing price of Rs. 1,413. It touched the intra-day high of Rs. 1,451.

Mumbai: Egg wholesalers in Mumbai observed a total bandh Monday in protest against the high rates fixed by National Egg Coordination Committee (NECC). Wholesalers are being charged Rs 60-65 more than last year, and this has caused retail rates to skyrocket as well.

Mumbai is likely to witness a severe shortage of eggs from Sunday, with the city-based trader association putting a flash ban on purchase of eggs from poultry farms.With eggs reaching an all time high of Rs 60 per dozen in the retail segment - each egg costing Rs 5 - the poultry owners, last week, escalated the price on eggs even in the wholesale market.