Birdflu had taken its toll on Abuja and six other states in Nigeria as apprised by the Federal Government to the public on Friday. In a meeting with state Commissioners of Agriculture in Abuja . Dr Gideon Mshelbwala, the Director of Veterinary and Pest Control Services, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development raised the troubling issue.Mshelbwala listed the states that had being affected by the disease including Bauchi, Katsina, Kano, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kaduna and even the FCT on May 30. He also stated that the flu had spread over 26 states of the federation and the FCT as it started back then in 2008 affecting 800 farms in nothing less than 123 local government areas in the country.
Mshelbwala, also stated that there were no scientifically proven vaccines for birdflu, also that the Federal Government was taking on quarantine, movement control, contamination removal and other processes so as to mar its spread. He was also bitter that the main reason for the adverse spread of the disease was the ignorance of farmers to carry out these control measures by themselves . based upon what he also stated, over N674 million was spent compensating to 269 farmers across the affected states by the Federal Government.
Also, he said “Our national action plan encourages proper regulation of the poultry industry and enforcement of annual registration of all actors along the poultry value chain including farmers, traders, egg merchants and feed millers. “It also encourages the creation of veterinary extension services to facilitate the control and proper inspection of poultry and poultry products’’. The best way forward was to import and adopt poultry and products, quarantine and biosecurity measures and also foreign ideas Mshelbwala also had said. Also he warned farmers against illegal vaccination of birds, as it was a deadly alternative to tackling the disease.
Mshelbwala, also stated that there were no scientifically proven vaccines for birdflu, also that the Federal Government was taking on quarantine, movement control, contamination removal and other processes so as to mar its spread. He was also bitter that the main reason for the adverse spread of the disease was the ignorance of farmers to carry out these control measures by themselves . based upon what he also stated, over N674 million was spent compensating to 269 farmers across the affected states by the Federal Government.
Also, he said “Our national action plan encourages proper regulation of the poultry industry and enforcement of annual registration of all actors along the poultry value chain including farmers, traders, egg merchants and feed millers. “It also encourages the creation of veterinary extension services to facilitate the control and proper inspection of poultry and poultry products’’. The best way forward was to import and adopt poultry and products, quarantine and biosecurity measures and also foreign ideas Mshelbwala also had said. Also he warned farmers against illegal vaccination of birds, as it was a deadly alternative to tackling the disease.
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