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Herding of ducks also outlawed in 25 provinces after spate of chicken deaths
BANGKOK: -- A temporary nationwide ban on cockfighting has been imposed along with a ban on €œmobile€ duck breeding in 25 provinces.
The bans are precautionary measures ordered yesterday by the Department of Livestock Development (DLD) to counter the possible outbreak of bird flu
following reports of unusual mass deaths of farm poultry in 12 provinces.
The moves were proposed €œin advance€ during meetings of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives officials over the past few weeks. DLD director-general Yukhol Limlaemthong said the bans were finally approved yesterday by Deputy Prime Minister Pinij Charusombat.
Three ministries €“ Interior, Natural Resources and Environment and Public Health €“ were made jointly responsible for imposing the ban on cockfighting and duck breeding.
Tests are being done on chickens that died in Kalasin, Phetchabun, Loei and Chachoengsao to determine whether their deaths were caused by bird-flu. Results of the laboratory tests are expected to be known within the week.
Tests are also being carried out on samples of carcasses of farm poultry in the eight other provinces, which include Suphan Buri, Pathum Thani, Prachin Buri, Udon Thani, Lampang, Chiang Mai and Lamphun.
In reference to the ban on cockfighting events, Yukhol said fighting roosters and locally-bred chickens were suspected to be primary sources of the disease. Owners of fighting cocks will also be asked
to keep their animals in confinement. And ducks must not be herded around as breeders usually do.
Yukhol said he feared that if the tests indicate bird flu, chicken exports would be halted until at least the end of this year, pending the mandatory 90-day evaluation period required under the World Organisation for Animal Health.
The DLD chief believed that duck breeders in the 25 provinces, which include the 12 provinces where mass poultry deaths have been reported, would comply with the ban. Last year when the first outbreak of bird flu hit the country, duck breeders adhered to bans whenever they were imposed.
--The Nation 2005-07-13
BANGKOK: -- A temporary nationwide ban on cockfighting has been imposed along with a ban on €œmobile€ duck breeding in 25 provinces.
The bans are precautionary measures ordered yesterday by the Department of Livestock Development (DLD) to counter the possible outbreak of bird flu
following reports of unusual mass deaths of farm poultry in 12 provinces.
The moves were proposed €œin advance€ during meetings of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives officials over the past few weeks. DLD director-general Yukhol Limlaemthong said the bans were finally approved yesterday by Deputy Prime Minister Pinij Charusombat.
Three ministries €“ Interior, Natural Resources and Environment and Public Health €“ were made jointly responsible for imposing the ban on cockfighting and duck breeding.
Tests are being done on chickens that died in Kalasin, Phetchabun, Loei and Chachoengsao to determine whether their deaths were caused by bird-flu. Results of the laboratory tests are expected to be known within the week.
Tests are also being carried out on samples of carcasses of farm poultry in the eight other provinces, which include Suphan Buri, Pathum Thani, Prachin Buri, Udon Thani, Lampang, Chiang Mai and Lamphun.
In reference to the ban on cockfighting events, Yukhol said fighting roosters and locally-bred chickens were suspected to be primary sources of the disease. Owners of fighting cocks will also be asked
to keep their animals in confinement. And ducks must not be herded around as breeders usually do.
Yukhol said he feared that if the tests indicate bird flu, chicken exports would be halted until at least the end of this year, pending the mandatory 90-day evaluation period required under the World Organisation for Animal Health.
The DLD chief believed that duck breeders in the 25 provinces, which include the 12 provinces where mass poultry deaths have been reported, would comply with the ban. Last year when the first outbreak of bird flu hit the country, duck breeders adhered to bans whenever they were imposed.
--The Nation 2005-07-13
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