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Rivers poultry farmers lament as strange disease kills birds
Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt
4 November 2021
Poultry farmers in Rivers State have raised the alarm over a strange disease that has caused the death of thousands of birds.
The farmers, who disclosed that the disease has defied drugs administered on the birds, solicited the intervention of the government in order to save their investments from being lost.
Speaking to newsmen, one of the affected poultry farm owners in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state, Chukwudi Wonwu expressed sadness that he watched his birds dropping helplessly.
Wonwu called on the state government to step up and provide a cure so that poultry farmers would not be forced out of business, pointing out that the disease is a threat to food security...
Rivers poultry farmers lament as strange disease kills birds
Dennis Naku, Port Harcourt
4 November 2021
Poultry farmers in Rivers State have raised the alarm over a strange disease that has caused the death of thousands of birds.
The farmers, who disclosed that the disease has defied drugs administered on the birds, solicited the intervention of the government in order to save their investments from being lost.
Speaking to newsmen, one of the affected poultry farm owners in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the state, Chukwudi Wonwu expressed sadness that he watched his birds dropping helplessly.
Wonwu called on the state government to step up and provide a cure so that poultry farmers would not be forced out of business, pointing out that the disease is a threat to food security...
