GROWING BANGLADESH POULTRY SECTOR CHALLENGED BY CLIMATE CHANGE
September 1st, 2016
Executives within Bangladesh's poultry industry are claiming that climate change is posing major management and operational problems as temperatures cause heat stress and promote disease among birds, increasing mortality rates.
Industry insiders say that vector-borne diseases and cases of low-pathogenic avian flu, fowl cholera, Newcastle disease, heat stroke and gumboro (infectious bursal disease) are promoted by higher temperatures in sub-tropical Bangladesh.
“It’s now becoming almost impossible to control temperature in shades,” said Munzur Murshid ...
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