The Hindu Business Line : TN gives ‘in-principle’ nod for poultry zoning

The Government’s consent was conveyed when the members of the poultry industry met early this week the State Animal Husbandry Minister, Ms Geetha Jeevan, and other officials including the Secretary, Department of Animal Husbandry, Ms Leena Nair, according to Dr P. Selvaraj, National Egg Coordination Committee’s Namakkal Zone Chairman.

Dr Selvaraj said zoning of poultry is essential in a vast country like India whose poultry States stand separated geographically by hundreds of miles and hence could be qualified as per the OIE’s (world organisation for animal health) standards for disease free zoning. Though the State Government has conceded the zoning, it would take at least three to six months for the industry in getting the zoning approved due to the lengthy procedure of compliance, he felt.

Based on the State Government’s proposal, the Centre will have to appoint a committee that would go into issues such as the standards of poultry diseases testing laboratories as per OIE norms (world organisation for animal health).

The farms are to be registered for exports and they would be visited by the authorities concerned before ensuring that each of the farms would be disease-free establishment as per OIE standards. To protect the future of the table egg exports from Tamil Nadu, the State has to go through the process right now, Dr Selvaraj added.

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