Topic
Poultry
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Reporting from earlier editions of The Agrotech Daily. Figures, prices and policies may have changed since.
- Deals & capital, GlobalTop 10 best farming business ideas to start your journeyLists ten farm business ideas, including poultry, organic farming, organic fertilisers, fertiliser distribution, mushrooms, sunflowers, dairy, lavender and garlic.
- Inputs & crop science, IndiaLivestock production in IndiaOutlines the place of livestock in Indian farm incomes and exports, from dairy and buffalo meat to poultry, and the sector's problems with emissions, breeding and cold chains.
- Inputs & crop science, HaryanaHaryana poultry farmers face losses because of the rising bird flu threatHaryana poultry farmers face losses as chicken and egg prices fell after more than four lakh bird deaths in the state amid suspected avian influenza.
- Inputs & crop science, Global4 worst challenges to the poultry industry after COVID-19Explains four challenges facing poultry production: food safety, antibiotic resistance, emerging and re-emerging diseases, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Inputs & crop science, Global4 worst facts about chicken and poultryA poultry farming primer turns into an account of industrial broiler production, covering rapid-growth breeding, heart failure and leg problems, transport and slaughter practices.
- Inputs & crop science, HaryanaMore than 1.6 lakh poultry birds to be culled in Haryana’s PanchkulaHaryana is culling more than 1.6 lakh poultry birds around two Panchkula farms where samples tested positive for H5N8 avian flu, paying owners ₹90 a bird.
- Inputs & crop science, United StatesWorld’s 5 best poultry-producing countriesThe global poultry market was valued at $267.3 billion in 2018; major US poultry companies including Cargill, Tyson Foods, Pilgrim's and Perdue Farms are profiled.
- Inputs & crop science, MaharashtraBird flu impact on a declining slope in Maharashtra: chicken consumption back to normalChicken consumption in Maharashtra is back to normal a month after the state's first bird flu case, but farm gate prices remain low at Rs 56 a kg in February.
- Markets, IndiaRise in poultry prices by 50% in a year due to increase in animal feed pricesPoultry prices have risen 50% in a year as soya meal, a main animal feed ingredient, rose 82%, while exports of soybean meal grew almost fourfold.
- Inputs & crop science, Global4 worst things the egg industry doesn’t want you to knowArgues that the egg industry kills male chicks at birth, confines hens in battery cages, trims beaks without pain relief and slaughters hens once laying drops.