Economic impact of bird flu outbreak on India s Rs 1.75 lakh crore poultry industry
To understand how the bird flu outbreak in India will hurt the economy we can fall back of COVID-19 impact data. In the initial months of the outbreak of coronavirus in India, when there were speculations that the pathogen might have spread through birds, the poultry sector of the country had lost out on $1 billion. January 11, 2021 / 10:40 PM IST
The outbreak of bird flu in India and its spread to nine states within a month of the first cases being reported has rung the alarm bells at a time the country is still trying to tame the novel coronavirus.