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Still battling fallout of COVID-19 crisis, poultry industry dealt fresh blow by bird flu outbreak Although animal Husbandry and Dairying Minister Giriraj Singh said there have been no scientific reports on transmission of bird flu to humans and consumers should not be scared, prices and demand for poultry and eggs has fallen in several states. FP Staff January 12, 2021 21:14:50 IST Representational Image. Reuters Already reeling from the impact of the novel coronavirus and the subsequent lockdowns, the bird flu outbreak comes as a fresh blow for the poultry industry. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, the sales and prices of eggs and poultry had similarly dropped due to unsubstantiated rumours that linked chicken to the spread of the coronavirus ....
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. ....