Minister for agriculture development Tek Bahadur Gharti today — addressing the NARC Day ceremony — directed Nepal Agriculture Research Council (NARC) officials to be instrumental in modernising agriculture system and help in the growth of agriculture entrepreneurs across the country.

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Jagadish Pandey, Chief of the District Livestock Office Jhapa, said bird flu was confirmed at Mechinagar, Chandragadhi and Kumarkhod in Jhapa.

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Regional Livestock Directorate today organised a press conference in Nepalgunj and informed that due to the open border these districts are at high risk of bird flu.

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Compared with the Bric countries and Next 11, Nepal is small fry.

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Authorities in Bhaktapur’s Bode have culled more than 1500 chickens following a suspected outbreak of bird flu, health officials said.

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Through two of the country’s leading poultry firms - Avinash Hatchery and Pro Biotech Industries -- the project will work to strengthen the technical skills of 3,000 poultry farmers, directly impacting 40 per cent of the industry. The SouthAsia Enterprise Development Facility, managed by IFC in partnership with the UK government and the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, is leading this initiative.

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Nepal’s small poultry farmers are receiving help in the form of instruction in better management practises from International Finance Corporation (IFC), a World Bank Group member.

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Nepal’s small poultry farmers are receiving help in the form of instruction in better management practises from International Finance Corporation (IFC), a World Bank Group member.

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Nepal has declared itself HPAI free as of 8 July 2012, after surveillance of live bird markets, water bird areas, and the outbreak area itself, yielded no further cases.

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The Bird Flu Disease Control District Technical Committee has decided to compensate the losses incurred by poultry farmers in the culling of poultry and related products carried out in order to check the spread of the disease.

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The government is planning to provide more subsidies on agriculture, especially on fertilisers and seeds for farmers below the poverty line.

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After the confirmation of bird flu avian influenza in a farm in the Nepali capital Kathmandu, the alert level among the residents of Kathmandu has been elevated.

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Chicken sales has come down in Udaypur and Khotang districts after bird flu was confirmed in some poultry farms in Sunsari district last week.

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The farmers said they have been attracted towards commercial poultry farming as broilers grow up fast and could give benefit in a short period of time.

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Veterinary Concern, based in Kathmandu, has started distributing Norel Animal Nutrition products for the Nepal poultry market.

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Aviagen is celebrating the success of a recent seminar in Kathmandu, which formally introduced the company and its capabilities to the Nepalese market.

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Records of poultry farms are being assembled to make it easier to control bird flu when the disease is detected, said DoL Director, Dr Prabhakar Pathak.

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