Retail chicken prices Bangalore, Karnataka, have continued to remain high despite the onset of the monsoon season (in summer, chicken prices are high due to the high mortality of the birds in farms).

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India's relentless search for hydrocarbons to fuel its booming economy has managed the rather neat diplomatic trick of annoying Washington, delighting Tehran and intriguing Baghdad, all the while leaving the Indian Treasury fretting about how to pay for its oil imports, given tightening sanctions on fiscal dealings with Iran.

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Large, organised poultry meat producers have set their eyes on making 2013 a year of growth on value rather than volume.

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Two lorry loads of cattle travelling from Vellore to abattoirs in Kerala were rescued on Monday due to welfare concerns.

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For the first time in Mizoram and perhaps in the country, virus of a pandemic disease which causes reproductive failure in breeding stock and respiratory tract illness in young pigs has been detected in the samples of sick swines sent to laboratories for testing.

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Large, organised poultry meat producers have set their eyes on making 2013 a year of growth on value rather than volume.

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According to The Times of India, domestic poultry meat production (broiler - carcass weight) is estimated to have increased from less than 1 million tonnes in 2000 to 3.4 million tonnes in 2012 with per capita consumption increasing from 0.8 kg to 2.8 kg per annum during the period.

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According to The Hindu Business Line, the Rs 47,000-crore industry has been growing at 8-10 per cent annually and although the sector has a negligible presence on the exports front, it is betting big on the growing domestic market.

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INDIA has the biggest bovine herd in the world for the second year running.

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Government fodder schemes to help sustain starving cattle during the summer heat have not materialised resulting in pregnant cattle being sent for slaughter in Karnataka.

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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Indian beef (including buffalo) export forecasts for 2013 have been revised significantly lower from the October 2012 estimate, to 1.7 million tonnes cwt.

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More than 600 pigs have died from classical swine fever, also known as hog cholera, and about 12,200 have been infected in the past two months in Mizoram, officials said.

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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Indian beef (including buffalo) export forecasts for 2013 have been revised significantly lower from the October 2012 estimate, to 1.7 million tonnes cwt – back 21% from the initial 2.2 million tonnes cwt (April 2013 Livestock and Poultry: World Markets and Trade – USDA).

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Сall it good luck rather than good management.

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The World Trade Organisation's dispute settlement body (DSB) will finally solve the misunderstanding over poultry imports between India and the US, one year after the latter filed a complaint against India, stating that the country has violated global trading rules.

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While Indian milk production tops global charts the output of the Tripura region is being hit due to a spate of cattle smuggling to Bangladesh.

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A delegation of the National Egg Co-ordination Committee (NECC) led by chairperson Anuradha J Desai met with Sharad Pawar, the Union Agriculture Minister to requested a special package for poultry farmers to help them survive the current conditions.

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Hit by a spurt in raw material costs and unremunerative prices, the poultry industry has sought a relief package to ride out the downturn.

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The poultry sector, which is suffering due to spiralling prices of raw material like soya meal and maize, approached the government seeking a revival and restoration package for the sector.

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With supply down and demand rising, poultry prices are skyrocketing with egg prices up 12 per cent over a week.

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Over 2,000 chickens have been culled and a large quantity of eggs destroyed in the Indian state of Bihar following an outbreak of avian flu, officials have reported.

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The Bihar government has asked the officials of the Animal Husbandry Department (AHD) to take all preventive measures and keep a close tab on chickens in those areas where bird flu H5N1 type virus had been detected.

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Birth. For 200,000 years of human history, the moment of delivery marked the beginning of a struggle; a life-long war with infectious disease.

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India will do everything it can to push record volumes of wheat onto the global market to cut massive stocks, a senior farm ministry official said on Wednesday, in a move that could hit shipments of other grains using rail and congested ports.

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MSD Animal Health (known as Merck Animal Health in USA and Canada) has announced the introduction of Innovax-ND-SB (or Innovax-ND) in India.

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Food inflation in India has been driven by a sharp rise in the cost of poultry meat, which in turn has been spurred by the spiral ascent of maize (corn) prices globally, reports The Hindu Business Line.

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With the winter season in the North coming to an end, prices of poultry products are on the decline.

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For years, much of the news to come from India’s farming regions was dismal.

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After witnessing one of its worst ever periods during the second half of 2012, India's poultry industry has made a strong comeback during the first quarter of 2013, according to a Rabobank report.

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The US and India are ready to face each other at the World Trade Organisation over a poultry import ban imposed by New Delhi, a Commerce Department official has said.

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Poultry feed prices continued to rule flat despite an uptrend in prices of its key ingredients.

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FACE (Food and Agriculture Centre of Excellence) organised its first Meat and Poultry Summit, in partnership with the Ministry of Food Processing, Government of India, keeping in view the opportunities and challenges faced by different stake holders in the meat and poultry supply chain.

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After its prices fell last week, feed remained stable over the week on steady production cost, said commodity analyst Aditya Mishra.

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Keralites are known for the consumption of meat but hotels in the state are now keeping chicken off their menu cards in protest against the recent sharp increase in the price of the meat.

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Animal rights activists and the city police found three men slaughtering cows and calves at a beef stall in Chromepet on Sunday.

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The market price of chicken has gone up to Rs 130 per kilogram, reports The New Indian Express.

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Aditya Mishra, a commodity expert, told The Hindu Business Line, that good demand and steady input cost kept feed products unchanged and may continue to rule around current levels for the next few days.

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Poultry industry in the State finds itself in the middle of an unprecedented crisis, thanks to ‘exorbitant’ rise in prices of feed and absence of commensurate increase in prices of birds and eggs.

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Poultry production in the India’s most prominent producing state, Andhra Pradesh is finding itself in the middle of an unprecedented crisis.

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The unsafe disposal of dead broiler birds from many poultry farms in the district of Tirupur in Tamil Nadu is allegedly posing serious health hazards in rural areas.

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Merial, the Animal Health division of Sanofi, has announced that Sanofi has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the animal health division of the Indian company Dosch Pharmaceuticals Private Limited, creating a market entry for Merial in that country’s strategically important and growing animal health sector.

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In recent years, several Thai companies have made their debuts in this emerging economy in sectors such as agriculture, spa treatments, melamine goods and even bowling lanes.

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Rabobank missed this one in their doom and gloom forecasts.India is poised to triple wheat exports this year to a higher-than-expected, record 6 million tonnes, helping plug a shortfall in lower-quality grainBSE 4.86 % supplies and keep a lid on global prices.

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Consisting of a cattle ambulance equipped with necessary apparatus and manned by a veterinary doctor and assistant, the mobile veterinary service comes as part of a first wave of a cattle health policy to help rural India develop.

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India, the largest banana producing country in the world, is vying for a bigger share of the global market.

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Broiler meat production in the country registered a 8.97 per cent rise to touch 3.1 million tonnes in 2012 and is likely to touch 3.4 million tonnes (a growth of 8.23 per cent) in 2013, according to the US Department of Agriculture.

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Around 10,000 broiler chicken units in the State are facing closure due to non-supply of chickens.

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An Indian government inquiry into Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s (WMT) lobbying activities in the U.S. will check for possible violation of Indian laws by the global retail giant, a senior federal minister said Thursday.

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The Indian poultry producing company Venkateshwara Hatcheries, also known as Venky’s has invested in Petersime equipment for its new hatchery in Tamil Nadu, India.

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Noisy scenes were witnessed today on the floor of the Karnataka Assembly as opposition tried to shout down ruling members demanding that the controversial Cow Slaughter Ban Bill should not be passed in the House.

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More than 85 percent Indians believe that animals have as many rights as people, says recent research on animal welfare.

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Bihar's first Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet has been sealed after it was found to be running without a licence, state Food Commissioner Sanjay Kumar said.

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc prepared its entry into India's supermarket sector in 2010 with a $100 million investment into a consultancy with no employees, no profits and a scant $14,000 in revenue.

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ABCA, a division of AB Agri, the Agricultural Group of Associated British Foods plc. (ABF), is participated at Poultry India exhibition,held recently in Hyderabad.

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The government of the Indian state of Kerala has announced their plans to build a modern chicken hatchery and a farmers’ facilitation centre in Konni as part of a project to help widows in the region.

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According to a USDA report, India's Buffalo exports have risen from 609,000 tonnes in 2009 to a projected 2,160,000 tonnes in 2013.

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On the back of the latest forecast from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that India will jump ahead of long-term beef export powerhouses of Australia, Brazil and the US in 2013, it is interesting to review just where Indian beef has been making its mark in recent years.

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Poultry prices have been forecast to remain level over the next few days due to trends in input costs levelling and good demand.

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On the back of the latest forecast from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that India will jump ahead of long-term beef export powerhouses of Australia, Brazil and the US in 2013, it is interesting to review just where Indian beef has been making its mark in recent years.

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After the release of a global beef exports forecast by the USDA predicting India to overtake Brazil, Australia and the US it is interesting to look at where Indian beef has been exported in recent years.

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