Bird Flu Monitor > Ghana: Aftermath of bird flu Poultry farmers saddled with bank loans
[Pandemic Flu from Europe] Speaking at the National Bird Flu briefing programme in Accra on Tuesday, Agyei-Henaku observed that during the peak of the bird flu scare hatcheries had to destroy a large number of day old chicks and gave example of how a reputable hatchery in the Greater Accra region destroyed 49,760 day old chicks within six weeks because prospective customers failed to collect them leading to a loss of more than ¢358 million. Source: Ghana web: Aftermath of bird flu Poultry...
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