GHC44 million paid as remuneration to impacted Bird Flu ranchers.
Mr. Joseph Kofi Abu, Greater Accra Regional Veterinary Officer has uncovered that the public authority through the Ministry of Finance delivered GHC44 million as pay to affected Bird Flu ranchers the nation over.
Mr. Abu uncovered that ranchers who were affected during the episode from 2015 to December 31st, 2020, have accepted their pay bundle from the public authority.
Mr Abu expressed during a visit different poultry ranches affected by Bird Flu by delegates from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), Ghana Health Service (GHS), Greater Accra Veterinary Service Unit, and its improvement foundations have visited some affected poultry ranch inside the Tema and Kpone Katamanso regions.
The visit was to get to the circumstance at the different poultry ranches after the Bird Flu flare-up early this year, which was checked by the Communication For Development and Advocacy Consult (CDA Consult) in Saki, close to Kpone.
The Greater Accra Regional Veterinary Officer noticed that the Bird influenza was all the while floating in the framework, saying that ranchers ought to go to prudent lengths to check any upsurge in the episode.
Mr. Abu indicated that administration would before long compensate the following period of the remuneration bundle to the as of late affected poultry ranchers.
Around 102 poultry ranches were hit by the bird influenza episode early this year.
Dr. Anthony Akunzule Representative of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN) said requesting firsthand data from the ranchers would assist with disentangling the genuine course of the episode and how to manage what is going on in a calculated manner.
He brought up that poultry ranchers expected to stick to severe safety efforts to guarantee poultry birds were safeguarded from the lethal sickness at their homesteads, saying that the bird influenza flare-up should have been overseen very a long time before it causes mortalities.
As indicated by him, endeavors would be made as an issue of criticalness to meet with the affected ranchers to sharpen them to guarantee great homestead rehearses were seen consistently.
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