AMRAVATI: More than 36,000 birds in Bhankheda area of Amravati taluka will be culled and buried in a big put on Sunday after the National High Security Animal Diseases Institute, Bhopal, detected flu at Dhiman Poultry Farm.
SDO and chairman of Amravati Taluka Bird Flu Control Committee, Udaysingh Rajput, issued the orders on Saturday. “The area within one kilometre radius of the farm has been declared as a transmission zone and the one in 10km radius has been termed as a survey zone,” said Rajput.
All the birds of the poultry farm located in survey No. 57/2 and others within one kilometre radius would be scientifically culled and put in a big pit by a team from the rapid action force on Sunday.
Dr Mohan Gohatre, deputy commissioner, animal husbandry, said action has been initiated as the birds are more than 36,000 in number.
Apart from the birds, their food, eggs, egg papers, trays, baskets, manure and waste too will be destroyed after which the sanitization process would begin.
A three-month ban has been enforced on the entry and exit of processed products, food and eggs in the survey area. This is for the first time that birds would be culled on such a large scale due to the flu.
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