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The Director-General of the Department of Livestock Development ordered provincial livestock officials in flood-hit areas to spray disinfectants after water declines at the end of November to prevent bird flu outbreak.
Livestock Development Department Director-General Yukol Limlaemthong (ยุคล ลิ้มแหลมทอง) led a team to visit and distribute animal feed to farmers of Tambon Tumplee, in the central district of Ayutthaya. 80% of the farmers are Thai-Muslims raising breeding cows and goats for export. During floods, they have moved over 2,000 heads of their cattle to a space behind earthen dykes along the Ayutthaya-Angthong road.
The Director-General said that floods have affected most of the farm animals in the North, the central region, and the Northeast. 56,308 farmers and 2.7 million animals have been affected, 2.4 million of which are poultry. The Livestock Development Department has provided them with 1,000 tonnes of dried grass and prepared another 1,000 tonnes to be distributed more in the central region. Another 1,000 tonnes have been reserved for the South.
Mr Yukol also ordered all livestock development officials in the provinces to send mobile medical units to inundated areas and to draw up a zoning identifying high places where farmers can evacuate their animals if flood occurs again in the future. Veterinarians will be called to take care of their animals immediately.
However, the most worrying problem after water has declined is the return of bird flu since then winter has already come and the inundation areas are the same areas where bird flu spread last year. As a result, Mr Yukol called for collaborations from residents and all poultry farmers to clean their farms by spraying disinfectants after flood water has reduced.
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</TD></TR><TR><TD align=right> </TD></TR><TR><TD>The Director-General of the Department of Livestock Development ordered provincial livestock officials in flood-hit areas to spray disinfectants after water declines at the end of November to prevent bird flu outbreak.
Livestock Development Department Director-General Yukol Limlaemthong (ยุคล ลิ้มแหลมทอง) led a team to visit and distribute animal feed to farmers of Tambon Tumplee, in the central district of Ayutthaya. 80% of the farmers are Thai-Muslims raising breeding cows and goats for export. During floods, they have moved over 2,000 heads of their cattle to a space behind earthen dykes along the Ayutthaya-Angthong road.
The Director-General said that floods have affected most of the farm animals in the North, the central region, and the Northeast. 56,308 farmers and 2.7 million animals have been affected, 2.4 million of which are poultry. The Livestock Development Department has provided them with 1,000 tonnes of dried grass and prepared another 1,000 tonnes to be distributed more in the central region. Another 1,000 tonnes have been reserved for the South.
Mr Yukol also ordered all livestock development officials in the provinces to send mobile medical units to inundated areas and to draw up a zoning identifying high places where farmers can evacuate their animals if flood occurs again in the future. Veterinarians will be called to take care of their animals immediately.
However, the most worrying problem after water has declined is the return of bird flu since then winter has already come and the inundation areas are the same areas where bird flu spread last year. As a result, Mr Yukol called for collaborations from residents and all poultry farmers to clean their farms by spraying disinfectants after flood water has reduced.
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