The detection of bird flu in a farm in Bihar’s Purnea district has Tamil Nadu chicken farmers and egg exporters worried.
They fear that countries that they supply poultry products to could ban exports from the country and even limit sales in domestic markets.
Farms in Namakkal account for around 95 of the total egg exports from the country.
Around 6,000 chickens were culled and huge quantities of eggs destroyed in Purnea on Thursday after chickens tested positive for the H5N1 virus last week. Three blocks in the district have been declared high risk zones.
Union animal husbandry secretary Gokul Chandra Pati confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in a report he submitted to the World Organisation for Animal Health on Thursday.
Tests by High Security Animal Disease Laboratory in Bhopal identified a highly pathogenic form of avian influenza as the cause of death. The report, however, made it clear that the infection was only in a particular zone.
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