The Bangladeshi veterinary authorities have reported two outbreaks of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) at commercial poultry farms located in Rangpur and in Dhaka.

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Over 2000 fowls have been culled following detection of bird flu virus at a poultry farm in Islampara area of Chuadanga district town.

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Poultry industry in Chalan Beel area in the district now passing through a tough time as increased prices of inputs, including feeds, medicines and one-day chicks, have appeared to be a stumbling block for its survival.

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Bangladesh is still feeling the aftershocks from 2007’s HPAI outbreak that closed 50,000 related businesses and put 2.5 million out of a job.

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The government has decided to 'experimentally' vaccinate poultry birds to protect the poultry industry from avian influenza virus, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Md Abdul Latif Biswas said yesterday.

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An eight-member expert committee has been formed in Bangladesh to devise a plan to start a vaccination programme in the wake of the spread of avian influenza in poultry farms across the country.

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A supply shortage of day-old chicks against an increased demand has become a boon for hatchery operators but came as the bane of consumers.

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The price of chicken has been rising in the kitchen markets in Chittagong since the last week of April due to an imbalance of demand and supply.

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Over the last two years three of India’s poultry giants, Venkateshwara Hatcheries Group, Shuguna and Amrit, have expanded their operations to Bangladesh.

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Three Indian poultry giants set foot in Bangladesh in the last two years, encouraged by growth in the local industry and the prospects of increased demand for protein due to rising income and a huge population.

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The avian influenza outbreaks in Bangladesh at the end of 2011 have taken thier toll on the domestic agriculture sector.

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Two people were arrested and jailed by a mobile court yesterday morning for collecting and selling dead chicken in the capital's Karwan Bazar.

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The Bangladeshi veterinary authorities have reported a total of ten highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreaks across various commercial poultry farms in Dhaka, Khulna, Chittagong and Rajshahi.

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Renewed attacks of avian influenza on the poultry industry cut chicken production and hiked prices of meat and eggs.

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The Bangladeshi poultry industry has demanded waiver of "turnover tax" on their businesses amid spread of the Avian influenza virus attack and higher import cost because of US dollar appreciation, industry people said.

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After the procession at Pukhuridanga village, a rally was held at a local school where joint secretary of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD) central committee Nazmul Haque Prodhan among others spoke while former schoolteacher Kamaluddin Ahmed chaired it.

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Over 11,000 poultry birds were culled and 43,000 eggs destroyed after the bird flu virus was detected at a poultry farm in Bangladesh.

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The poultry industry in Bangladesh has multi-dimensional prospects, reports Financial Express of Bangladesh. It has already shown some promises about increasing protein availability of the country's vast population. Traditional poultry – reared naturally and in an unplanned manner – have been the mainstay for many years.

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The poultry industry in Bangladesh has multi-dimensional prospects, reports Financial Express of Bangladesh. It has already shown some promises about increasing protein availability of the country's vast population. Traditional poultry – reared naturally and in an unplanned manner – have been the mainstay for many years.

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Bangladesh will share a new strain of bird flu virus, identified as a possible pandemic threat, with US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) to develop 'seed virus,' key ingredient to make a vaccine in emergency.

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The move will open up the $660 billion global halal food market to food processors in Bangladesh according to a report in the Asia Times.

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An unusual rise in the price of one-day-old chicks and poultry feed has come as a serious blow to the already limping poultry industry in eight districts of Rangpur division, according to Daily Star of Bangladesh.

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The veterinary authority sent Follow Up Report No. 34 dated 7 July to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

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A third of the country's farm-raised chicken has been decimated by the latest outbreak of the bird-flu, a top poultry farmer has said Thursday, demanding compensation for the affected farms.

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Poultry farm owners in the Barisal region are facing setbacks due to high price of chicks and poultry feed, reports Financial Express.

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Bengal Meat Processing Industries, an internationally certified meat producer and exporter, expects to ring up Tk 400 million in overseas sales this year by doubling its halal meat export.

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Bangladesh's long-term outlook as a leading producer of poultry products remains bright despite the bird flu outbreak that has held off its potential, speakers at a meeting said yesterday.

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The government is allowing the import of eggs and chicks from India although the local poultry industry suffers losses because of surplus production, egg and chick raisers have alleged.

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In the wake of bird flu 'outbreak', poultry farm and hatchery owners have demanded a ban on import of chicks and eggs from India.

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There have been 31 new outbreaks of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI).

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Enterprises working in the poultry sector have blamed the increase in poultry feed prices, government's failure to provide incentives to the sector, low market price of eggs and chickens and bird flu as the main reasons, according to Gulf Times.

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A total of 6,000 poultry birds were culled and 29,000 eggs damaged following outbreak of bird flue at a hatchery at Kashada village under Shivalaya upazila on Tuesday and Wednesday night.

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According to Financial Express of Bangladesh, 23 countries including the US, German, Franch, China, India and Pakistan will take part at the three-day event schedule to be held at Bangabandhu International Conference centre in the city.

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With fresh cases of avian influenza or bird flu being detected at a government-run farm in western Tripura, the authorities Tuesday started culling more than 7,000 poultry birds at the farm to contain the spread of the disease, officials said here.

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New cases of bird flu outbreak continue to ravage Tripura, sending the officials into deep funk. About 400 birds died of avian influenza last week at Gandhinagar poultry farm. This outbreak and die-off comes close on the heels of the outbreak in R.K.Nagar poultry farm last month.

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At least 6,838 poultry and 2,609 eggs of two poultry farms under sadar upazila of Gazipur were destroyed yesterday and on Thursday night following detection of avian influenza.

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New cases of bird flu outbreak continue to ravage Tripura, sending the officials into deep funk. About 400 birds died of avian influenza last week at Gandhinagar poultry farm. This outbreak and die-off comes close on the heels of the outbreak in R.K.Nagar poultry farm last month.

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The veterinary authority sent Follow Up Report No. 29 dated 24 February to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

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An outbreak of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has been confirmed at a farm in the Dhaka region of Bangladesh.

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The authorities sent Follow Up Report No. 27 dated 3 February to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

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The veterinary authority has sent Follow Up Report No. 26 dated 10 January to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

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Rainbow Pharmaceuticals, an upcoming Dhaka based company has been appointed to distribute Avitech products addressing the poultry and cattle segment in Bangladesh. Rainbow Pharmaceuticals is a new business venture of Dr. Motiar Hossain, a qualified veterinary doctor from Bangladesh Agriculture University with 10 years of senior management experience in sales and marketing in the Animal health industry.

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Economy of the country performed reasonably well during the first quarter of the present fiscal, even though the performance of different sectors and sub-sectors was mixed, according to a review of the Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI).

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The poultry industry is otherwise known to hold out multi-faceted prospects for the Bangladesh economy. An opinion piece in Financial Express of Bangladesh states that it has already shown the way to increasing protein availability of the vast population of the country. Traditional poultry – reared naturally and in an unplanned manner – have been the mainstay for many years. But the needs of the growing population dictated planned breeding of poultry birds to cope with the higher demand. Thus, planned breeding of poultry that started from the eighties is now a well-established field of activities in the country.

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Health officials in Bangladesh are working to contain an outbreak of anthrax that has affected the price of leather, the BBC reported Wednesday on its website. The latest outbreak, which was first detected in Sirajganj in August and has now spread to 12 districts, is believed to have been caused by the slaughtering of infected cattle and selling or eating the contaminated meat, the report said.

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Indian poultry giant Venkateshwara Hatcheries Group (VH Group) has launched its operations in Bangladesh. The $650 million conglomerate, which claims to be the largest fully integrated poultry group in Asia, looks to produce broiler and layer food locally, said a company statement.

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The company is looking to bring in state-of-the-art technology to the Bangladeshi poultry sector, according to Daily Star. The US$650 million conglomerate, which claims to be the largest fully integrated poultry group in Asia, says the company plans to replicate its Indian success through revolutionising the poultry sector in Bangladesh.

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Anthrax fears among consumers have encouraged people to farm poultry more amid rising prices of chicken, but the supply of chicks is less than expected, reports Daily Star of Bangladesh.

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According to reports on the BBC, Bangladesh is now on high alert following the outbreak in the north of the country.

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Bangladesh has decided to allow import of day-old broiler and layer chicks and also eggs from India to break the monopoly of some big companies in the country’s poultry sector and also to meet the country’s increasing demands, reports Gulf Times. Sharful Alam, secretary in the ministry of fisheries and livestock, has said that the import of poultry products from India would begin within a week.

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Following a health ministry meeting on earlier in the week, Mr Biswas said that check posts have been set up at all entrances and exits of Dhaka to block the infected cattle.

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"Some 89 residents in Sirajganj district, 134 km northwest of capital Dhaka, are suspected to be affected with anthrax after they consumed beef from infected cows," Ramiz Uddin Ahmed, programme officer of the district's civil surgeon office, told Xinhuanet.com .

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About 5000 poultry farms in Sirajganj, Pabna, Natore and Bogra districts in the Northern region of Bangladesh have closed in the last three months and many others are on their way to closure due to an abnormal price hike in chicks and poultry feed, posing threat to the industries.

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The poultry industry has multi-faceted prospects, reports Financial Express of Bangladesh. First of all, it showed the way to meeting the protein need of the already vast population of the country. The traditional poultry birds – reared naturally and not through any planned manner – had been the mainstay for ages. But the need of the growing population dictated concerted and coordinated moves for breeding of poultry birds to cope with the higher demand. Such moves began in the eighties and constitute now a well-established field of activities in the country.

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The poultry industry will be a leading sector in the country within a decade, stakeholders said at a recent roundtable meeting. The New Nation of Bangladesh reports that the Breeders Association of Bangladesh organised the programme entitled 'Present crisis and prospects of poultry industry in Bangladesh' at the National Press Club.

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Environmentalists in Bangladesh have urged the government to take necessary measures to stop the use of tannery waste in poultry feed to avoid health hazards.

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According to The Daily Star, they made the call while addressing a roundtable on 'Preparing poultry feeds by poisonous tannery waste: Impact on public health' organised by the Poribesh Bachao Andolon (POBA) at its office, said a press release.

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Bangladesh is fast becoming one of Canada's major export customers for wheat and could be seen as a sign of further demand from formerly non-routine customers. According to the latest Canadian Grain Commission data for May, Canada has exported 873,300 tonnes of wheat during the 2009-10 crop year to date, making the country second only to Iraq as an export destination.

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Bangladesh Poultry Farm Protection National Council early this week demanded that the government ensure the sale of layer and broiler chicks at the price set earlier to protect the poultry industry.

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Small poultry farmers warned that they would stop buying layer and broiler chicks from 01 July if the hatchery owners charge prices more than the government fixed rates.

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