Ludhiana, March 29 : Sunday ho ya Monday, roz khao aandey”. This saying still goes strong but the only difference is that now, one can choose eggs according to his/her nutrient requirement. Low on cholesterol, high on omega 3, choose egg according to your nutrient requirement and have a healthy breakfast. Not only this, instead of fruit-based jam, add a tinge of egg jam or egg sauce to your breakfast. 

Officials of the Tamil Nadu Food Safety and Drug Administration Department seized 1,830 rotten eggs that was supplied to a bakery in Ariyanoor and destroyed it here on Monday.

Poultry farmers should take all precautionary measures, as the temperature was expected to rise, both during day and night in the next four days.

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. 

Lately, do you find yourself peering at the great variety of eggs available at your local supermarket totally lost and confused? After all, it can be daunting to be faced with choices as vast as herbal eggs, Vitamin D eggs, omega-3 eggs, diabetic eggs, cardio eggs, brun eggs and so on. More often than not, the befuddled consumer just reaches out for a pack blindly without really understanding what he or she has just picked up. In our quest to better understand what goes into the making of such 'enriched or specialty eggs.

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.