Poultry News

India banned the export of broken rice with immediate effect. Broken rice is widely used as feed in the poultry sector. This Kharif season, the area under paddy cultivation is around 6 per cent lower than the previous season.

Women who consumed the highest amount of red meat had a 23 per cent higher risk compared with women who consumed the lowest amount.

A green body has slammed an advertisement highlighting that no antibiotics are used in chicken as an "eye wash" and alleged that the use of antibiotics in poultry sector is "rampant".

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) in Singapore found that the higher intake of red meat and poultry is associated with significantly increased risk of developing diabetes.

Scientists say bestselling cookbooks give little useful advice about reducing the risk of foodborne illness, particularly in recipes involving meat products. 

Japan has begun slaughtering about 210,000 farm birds in northern Hokkaido to contain another outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian flu, an official said Sunday.

Chief Minister Sarbanand Sonowal reviewed the situation yesterday as over six lakh people are reeling under the fury of flood in Assam.

J&K has formulated Rs 2,000 crore vision document to revamp the live stock sector and submitted it to Central government.

India has lost a case at the WTO, with an appellate body at the global trade organisation Thursday ruling that Indian ban on American poultry product imports was "inconsistent" with the international norms.

Indian corn producers, after scoring virtually no major export deal for months, are counting on local chicken farms to absorb millions of tonnes of the grain as poultry output heads for yet another record year.

India is likely to challenge a WTO panel's ruling which had described the country's ban on American poultry product imports as inconsistent with global norms.