Rising Temperatures Cool Off Bird Flu Outbreak
DHAKA, BANGLADESH - With the rise of temperature, bird flu that battered the growing poultry industry in Bangladesh now started to ease off, an expert of the Livestock Department said Sunday.

Bangladesh Bank Gives Poultry Farmers Wings
BANGLADESH - Due to the devastation wreaked by bird flu to the Bangladesh poultry sector, the national bank has asked commercial banks to provide fresh loans to rehabilitate the industry.

70,000 More Fowl Culled
DHAKA, BANGLADESH - According to the Chinese news agency Xinhuanet, another 69,862 fowls were culled and2,35,408 eggs destroyed in the last two days in three districts of Bangladesh due to infection of Avian influenza virus, leading newspaper The Daily...

Poultry Industry in Dire Straits
BANGLADESH - Fowls and eggs have dropped off the household menu due to heightened incidence of bird flu. Many restaurants, especially the wayside food vending shops are suspected to be selling curry made of cheaply bought off sick chicken to poor consumers....

149,453: Number of Chicken Culled in Dhaka
DHAKA, BANGLADESH - Bangladesh health workers completed culling around 150,000 chickens at a poultry farm in capital Dhakaas the bird flu ravaged the country's growing poultry industry, said government officials on Monday.

Bird Flu Hits 40 Districts in Bangladesh
BANGLADESH - The bird flu which is spreading fast in Bangladesh recently has so far affected 40 out of the total 64 districts of the country, leading English newspaper The Independent reported Tuesday.

Bangladesh Outbreak Hits 37 Districts
BANGLADESH - According to the Chinese news agency, Xinhuanet, the number of bird flu affected districts in Bangladesh has risen to 37 out of total 64 districts as bird flu continued to take its toll on the flourishing economic sector.

US Lends Helping Hand in Bird Flu Fight
DHAKA, BANGLADESH - The United States has donated 10,000 sets of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Bangladesh to help it strengthen avian influenza prevention and control.

326,000 Cases of Bird Flu in Bangladesh
DHAKA - Bird flu has so far affected more than 326,000 chickens in 29 out of Bangladesh's 64 districts since the first detection of the virus in the country last year, a government official said on Sunday.

Farmers Seek Poultry Feed Subsidy to Save Industry
BANGLADESH - Poultry industry players want the government to subsidise imported feed ingredients in the face of a surge in poultry feed prices.

Successful Hubbard Night Organised By Paragon
BANGLADESH - On March 2nd 2007, a Poultry Party took place at "SPORTS ZONE", a family amusement center owned by Paragon Group, on the top floor of the Corporate Head Office of Paragon. It was organized by FARMHOUSE, a monthly Magazine under Paragon's...

Poultry marketing cooperative assoc supplying dead chickens to hotels
BANGLADESH - Former leaders of the city's largest poultry marketing co-operative association yesterday alleged that its current committee has been supplying some 200 to 300 dead chickens to hotels and restaurants in the capital at a cheaper rate dail...

IFC Supports Women Farmers and Poultry Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh
DHAKA - IFC Advisory Services for South Asia—the SouthAsia Enterprise Development Facility—and the Women Entrepreneurs Association of Bangladesh today signed an agreement to provide support for women farmers and entrepreneurs in the poultry sector. ...

National policy soon for development of poultry sector
BANGLADESH - Fisheries and Livestock Adviser CS Karim yesterday said the government will formulate a national poultry policy soon for sustainable development of poultry sector in the country.

1,000 chickens die of bird flu in Noakhali
BANGLADESH - A poultry farm infected with avian influenza was detected in Companiganj upazila of Noakhali yesterday.