Another 40 pigs have died in eight villages in Ri-Bhoi and 22 pigs reportedly died in Nongstoin town of West Khasi Hills district. As per the department's livestock census last year, there are over 3.85 lakh pigs registered...
The prohibitory orders have been issued under section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), banning transportation, purchase and sale of pigs and their meat, collector Manoj Pushp said in the order under the Prevention...
The distribution of compensation will take place on August 11, it said. The announcement comes after the state government last week said it would distribute this month itself the compensation to pig farmers in Wayanad and...
According to an official from the district Animal Husbandry Department, the samples were sent for testing after pigs at the farm in the panchayat died en masse.
Last month, carcasses of wild boars were found in jungles near the Myanmar border, and the National Institute of High Security Animal Diseases in Bhopal recently confirmed that they died of ASF.
Samples from affected pigs have been sent to the National Institute of High Security Animal Disease in Bhopal and Regional Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Kolkata to diagnose the actual disease, he said.
In Kerala's Kottayam district, a private farm has been reported with African swine fever.
Kerala had in July tightened biosecurity measures following an alert from the Centre that African swine fever had been reported in Bihar and a few northeastern states. According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation...
Later in the day, a release issued by the district authorities said the Collector, in the meeting, directed all the departments to provide all necessary...
He also informed that there was a 20 per cent chance of pigs dying from the virus but in Sikkim the death rate of pigs that have died from the virus presently...
