MALDA, Dec. 16: The government has increased the rate of compensation for the poultry to be culled infected with the Bird Flu virus in the affected villages.
It was decided after taking into account the stiff resistance of the farmers to the culling operations that were being carried out in the wake of Bird Flu outbreak early this year, said the district administrative officials said. This time, the government has fixed Rs 2 for an egg which on earlier instances of flu outbreak was earlier never taken into account. Though the government has fixed a compensation rate for seven various avian species, there is no rate fixed yet for pigeon. In Malda, more than 1,10,000 birds were culled, in Januray and March, in Chanchal and English Bazaar area respectively with compensation between Rs 30 and Rs 40 for full grown chickens. According to the present rate, affected people would be getting Rs 20 for each less than 10-weeks-old chicken and Rs 50 for every one full-grown ones. The government has suggested paying Rs 50 for full grown layer. Rs 40 for each broiler. Rs 10 for Japanese Quell, Rs 75 for duck and geese, Rs 50 for Guinea foul and Rs 160 for a full grown turkey. The state officials have instructed that all birds be destroyed in burial grounds including poultry feed. n SNS
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