Farmers are being urged to move cows away from flies after an unknown disease has claimed the lives of around 1,000 cattle.

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The Department of Animal Production and Health has taken a decision to impose a temporary ban on the import of pork to Sri Lanka in view of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) presently spreading in the Ratnapura, Kegalle and Kurunegala areas.

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Despite objections from Muslim MPs, the Speaker has decided that pork may be offered to MPs in the Parliament canteen, revoking a previous ban on it, informed sources said.

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Fresh on the heels of a new one million chick/month hatchery, Sri Lankan meat producer, Pusalla, has signed an agreement with Hubbard to operate GP farms.

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According to Sri Lanka's Daily News, as a result of this, margins are expected to be affected in the coming years.

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The per capita poultry consumption in Sri Lanka is to increase to 8 kilo grams within the next five years in line with the increase of purchasing power of the citizens, Ceylon Grain Elevators (GRAN), the country’s largest poultry producer has said.

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In a zoological anomaly, a hen in Sri Lanka has given birth to a chick without an egg.

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Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa said that the government has planned to export 5,000 Mt tons of chicken this year for the first time.

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The Chairman of the association, Dr D.D. Wanasinghe said that policymakers have ignored the voice of the small scale poultry farmer, who is represented by the Association, when policy decisions were taken in the recent past.

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Sri Lanka's Daily News reports that Pussalla Meat Producers (Pvt) Ltd is the largest total vertically integrated poultry industry in the country having its own parent farms, hatcheries, largest broiler farms, processing plant, Processing, distribution network and Pussalla meat shop chain, a rare distinction to their credit.

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Sri Lanka's Three Acre Farms, a poultry firm, which is part of the Ceylon Grain Elevators group, said profits fell 88 per cent to 3.0 million rupees (LKR) in the June 2011 quarter from a year earlier, on rising costs and weaker chick prices.

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Sri Lanka's largest poultry company Bairaha Farms, has reported a net fall in profits of 47% to 55.1 million rupees in the June 2011 with revenues down 1% to 565 million rupees.

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Sri Lanka's Bairaha Farms, a poultry group said net profits fell 47 per cent to 55.1 million rupees (LKR) in the June 2011 quarter with revenues down to 565 million rupees, reports Lanka Business Online.

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The industry faces frequent ups and downs due to lack of monitoring and coordination from the authorities and as a result farmers as well as consumers suffer, the Chairman of the Association Dr D.D. Wanasinghe told the Sunday Observer.

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Sri Lankan poultry producer, Bairaha Farms is investing in a new broiler farm in Puttalam at a cost of 360-million-rupee (US$8.01 million).

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The poultry industry is again in a crisis due to the sharp decline in egg and chicken prices, which are below the cost of production, the All Island Poultry Association told Sunday Observer.

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Poultry firm, Bairaha Farms, said it is building a 360 million rupee modern broiler farm in the north-western Puttalam district to increase its production by 15 per cent over the next three years, reports Lanka Business.

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Sri Lanka's Three Acre Farms said March 2011 quarter group net profit was 41 million rupees (LKR) compared with just half-a-million rupees the year before although excess stocks forced it to cut prices, reports Lanka Business.

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A major food shortage is looming on Sri Lanka's east coast after heavy flooding.

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On January 19, under the title "Now is the time to do something," I wrote:"The worst is that, to a large degree, their solutions will depend on the richest and most developed countries, which will reach a situation that they really are not in a position to confront, unless the world which they have been trying to mold.collapses around them."

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As the first consignment of imported chicken and eggs hit the market this week, the local poultry association reacted strongly, claiming that imports were taking place despite a surplus of stocks.

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We wish to ask the Deputy Minister how his bizarre plan of breeding and farming such imported animals for flesh here, is compatible with the Mahinda Chinthana, and President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s policy that all measures for economic development introduced by his government will be guided by our own cultural values.

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TWO fish canning plants are to be built in Sri Lanka next year to supply both the export and domestic markets, the country's fisheries minister has announced.

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A new initiative in Sri Lanka could see the introduction of camels and ostriches to the country in a bid to curb food shortages. Although more than two decades of civil war ended last year, people in some areas of Sri Lanka are still finding the cost of food painfully high, and thousands of children suffer malnutrition.

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Swine flu in Sri Lanka has killed 22 people and infected more than 300 over the past two months, the island's health ministry said Monday.

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The first few batches of the chicken and egg imports are to reach Port of Colombo within the next 24 hours, according to Minister of Co-operatives and Internal Trade, Johnston Fernando.

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DNA Parliamentary group leader, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has told Parliament that 80 per cent of the poultry on farms in NWP are dying of 'Ranikhet', which is a poultry disease which was spreading in the area, reports Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka.

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Recent, well illustrated reports in the media appear to suggest a resurgence of Ranikhet disease (Newcastle disease) in poultry, according to The Island of Sri Lanka. This is indeed a disturbing revelation. Could the current resurgence of Newcastle disease be attributed to certain weaknesses now in the administrative and extension services, which had prevailed for so long?

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In an up market suburb of Sri Lanka capital Colombo an old lady dressed in faded clothes and her middle aged daughter is talking to a doctor. "'We cannot afford to eat rice for lunch anymore," she says. I now eat Maggi noodles'."

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Sri Lanka is planning to reduce the dependency its exports sector has on the EU and USA market by finding new markets in the longer run, says the EDB.

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The Co-operatives and Internal Trade Ministry plans to provide five million eggs to the market within the next few weeks to ease the shortage and rising prices in the country.

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Probably the cheapest form of protein available to man, eggs are an essential part of our daily consumption – be it fried or in other food items like cake or hoppers we find eggs in almost everything we eat.

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A top official in Sri Lanka is urging the country to make better use of its existing dairy cow stocks, which are proven to be lower yielding than foreign animals, instead of turning to imports.

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The government has decided to recommend a controlled price for eggs if prices are further increased by creating an artificial shortage in the local market, Co-operatives and Internal Trade Minister Johnston Fernando told the Daily News of Sri Lanka.

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Bairaha Farms, a prominent poultry breeder and processor in Sri Lanka says the national industry is recovering and increasing production following the relaxation of state restrictions. Sri Lanka's poultry industry has been hit badly recently by state price controls on chicken and import controls which 'protect' maize farmers but at the expense of chicken farmers. The state has now relaxed its controls on maize after the crisis in the poultry industry developed.

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Bairaha Farms, a prominent poultry breeder and processor in Sri Lanka says the national industry is recovering and increasing production following the relaxation of state restrictions. Sri Lanka's poultry industry has been hit badly recently by state price controls on chicken and import controls which 'protect' maize farmers but at the expense of chicken farmers. The state has now relaxed its controls on maize after the crisis in the poultry industry developed.

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As production increases after state restrictions on the sector were relaxed, and demand for the protein rises, the Sri Lankan poultry industry is thought to finally be on the road to recovery.

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Sri Lanka's Bairaha Farms, a poultry breeder and processor says the industry is recovering and increasing production after state restrictions on the industry were relaxed but demand is also rising, reports Lanka Business Online.

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Sri Lanka's 11 wildlife veterinary surgeons have gone on strike.

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While Colombo traders are supporting the government's decision to import chicken, poultry farmers strongly oppose the decision and said that imports will ruin the industry, according to Sunday Observer of Sri Lanka. At present the industry is in a crisis due to price reductions. There is a pattern in price changes and prices increase during festival seasons, farmers said.

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FAO South Asian Region Director Patric T. Evans had told Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Minister Dr Rajitha Senaratna that the FAO will assist Sri Lanka to increase its fish productivity through technical assistance and financial aid, reports Sri Lanka's Daily News.

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Foot and mouth disease which hit the cattle industry in Sri Lanka's Central Province has now spread to the North Central Province, the Sri Lankan government said on Tuesday.

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The All-Island Poultry Association had urged the Cooperative and Internal Trade Minister, Johnston Fernando, not to import chicken to fill the shortage in the market as it would affect the local poultry industry, according to Daily Mirror of Sri Lanka.

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The National Aquaculture Development Authority (NAQDA) has moved its head office to the administrative hub of the country, Pelawatte, Battaramulla

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The threat to import poultry products due to a shortage of chicken and a steep rise in the price of eggs, remains in Sri Lanka

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Due to unbelievably high import taxes levied on maize which makes up 50% of the poultry feed, a Sri Lankan feed manufacturer, turned to manioc (tapioca) as a cheaper substitute, which appeared to have been contaminated with a deadly toxin

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Construction has begun on a canned fish factory in Akmeemana. The factory is aimed at providing 2000 direct and indirect employment opportunities to youth in the Galle district, former Ceylon Fisheries Corporation Chairman and National Aquaculture Development Authority Chairman, Jude Fernando

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Construction has begun on a canned fish factory in Akmeemana. The factory is aimed at providing 2000 direct and indirect employment opportunities to youth in the Galle district, former Ceylon Fisheries Corporation Chairman and National Aquaculture Development Authority Chairman, Jude Fernando told the Daily News. The main objective of

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Sri Lanka has suspended importing live chicken from France owing to the threat of bird flu, the Animal Production and Health Department said. The Animal Production

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- Sri Lanka has opened up the vast refugee camps which have been holding tens of thousands of Tamils since the end of the war with Tamil Tiger rebels. BBC Tamil's Ponniah Manikavasagam in Vavuniya has met refugees allowed out of the camps and those who have been permanently resettled. I was not able to go inside but I could speak to the people who were leaving the camps. They were coming out in large numbers

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Putting farming at number one on the government agenda. Chitranganie Mubarak, Senior Programme Head - e-Society, of the Information Communications Technology Agency (ICTA), said the 'e-Dairy project' is part of the agency's 'e-Society programme' to take the benefits of ICT

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Consul General of Sri Lanka, V.S. Sidhat Kumar on Tuesday said Sri Lanka believes in market-oriented policies for helping increase export trade. In a meeting with members of SITE Association of Industry (SAI) here in the Association’s office, Kumar said we encourage foreign investment. Sri Lanka’s most dynamic sectors now are food processing, textiles apparel, beverages, port construction, telecommunications, insurance and banking, said a SAI statement here quoting him.

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e-Dairy extension is an innovative application of ICT aimed at achieving self sufficiency in national milk production.

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CIC Agribusiness (Pvt) Ltd. has embarked on an ambitious Rs.500 million dairy development project in the Welikanda and Punani areas where two farms are currently operating.

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Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Minister Felix Perera told Parliament yesterday the Government from the 2009 Budget has allocated Rs. 7,655 million to develop the country's fisheries sector. The Minister was responding to an oral question raised by JVP MP Pemasiri Manage. Of this total allocation

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In rebuilding Sri Lanka after three decades of destructive war, a vital area of regeneration is healthcare the important dimension of rebuilding Sri Lanka's fresh-milk industry. To build a wealthy

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Following the lifting of all fishing restrictions in the island's north, over 200 per cent growth in the fish harvest has been reported from Mannar and Trincomalee districts. According to the statistics collected by Sri Lanka Navy , 229 per cent growth in fish harvest and 155 per cent growth in number fishing boats went out sea for fishing have been indicated for

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The Srilankan government is to build the country's second wind power plant in Kalpitiya by the end of the year. Sri Lanka Sustainable

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Ten fish farmers, four government officers and one project officer from Sri Lanka completed a ten-day training and study tour on cage-based aquaculture in Thailand from 20-30 May 2009.

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A top Sri Lankan poultry breeder says it is destroying parent stock amid a deepening slump in the industry, while a related chicken feed producer said it was hit by fresh government taxes.

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