Ronan Kelly
Retired 2020
Culling team faces resistance in Tripura
TNN | May 9, 2012, 10.42PM IST
AGARTALA: A rapid response team constituted to conduct culling operations in the avian flu-affected poultry industry was stopped from carrying out their work by villagers in South Tripura. About 2500 poultry birds have been culled in past two days in Udaipur of South Tripura in the wake of H5N1 strains in sample of a government run firm last week and culling operations were launched on May 2 in 12 localities. The operation ended on Tuesday.
Animal resource minister Aghore Debbarma on Wednesday admitted that the mass culling of poultry had triggered anger among the villagers and the personnel's entry was resisted at Khilpara and Sonamura areas on Tuesday. "Many of them had to leave the place owing to heavy protests from locals," said Debbarma. During the culling operation, the department paid Rs 71,786 as compensation to poultry farmers, he said, adding that there were no further reports of avian flu strain in the state.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...esistance-in-Tripura/articleshow/13070653.cms
TNN | May 9, 2012, 10.42PM IST
AGARTALA: A rapid response team constituted to conduct culling operations in the avian flu-affected poultry industry was stopped from carrying out their work by villagers in South Tripura. About 2500 poultry birds have been culled in past two days in Udaipur of South Tripura in the wake of H5N1 strains in sample of a government run firm last week and culling operations were launched on May 2 in 12 localities. The operation ended on Tuesday.
Animal resource minister Aghore Debbarma on Wednesday admitted that the mass culling of poultry had triggered anger among the villagers and the personnel's entry was resisted at Khilpara and Sonamura areas on Tuesday. "Many of them had to leave the place owing to heavy protests from locals," said Debbarma. During the culling operation, the department paid Rs 71,786 as compensation to poultry farmers, he said, adding that there were no further reports of avian flu strain in the state.
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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...esistance-in-Tripura/articleshow/13070653.cms