Livestock

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India Plans To Tag Millions of Cows To Curb Smuggling

India could issue millions of cows with unique identification numbers, the latest effort to protect the sacred animals...

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Zimbabwe Schools Accept Goats For Fees

Parents in Zimbabwe who cannot afford school fees can offer livestock such as goats or sheep as payment, a government...

International

Poultry In England Allowed Outside As Anti-Bird Flu Measures Relaxed

All poultry in England will be allowed outside again from Thursday, having been kept indoors to protect them from an...

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Once-Banned Bloodsport Takes Wing

A boisterous roar sweeps through the crowd as a pair of roosters spar in a sandy pit, their spurs kicking, wings...

Business

2m Local Chickens Consumed Annually

Ghanaians consumed more than two million locally-produced chickens last year, a new USAID survey of the sector has...

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India State Greenlights Life Sentences For Cow Slaughter

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat on Friday increased the punishment for cow slaughter from...

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India State Greenlights Life Sentences For Cow Slaughter

India Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state of Gujarat on Friday increased the punishment for cow slaughter from...

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Cow Crackdown Puts India’s Meat Industry On Edge

Not a buffalo in sight as businessman Haji Shadab paced the silent abattoir, his meat shipments indefinitely on hold as...

Business

Cost of Borrowing Killing Poultry Industry

The Chairman of Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers, Victor OppongAgyei, has bemoaned the high cost of...

Business

Pwalugu Meat Factory To Rehabilitated Into Abattoir

The Upper East regional Minister, Mr. Rockson Bukari Ayine has hinted that the defunt Pwalugu Meat Factory will be...

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Japan Culls 280,000 More Birds For Avian Flu

Japan deployed hundreds of soldiers to help cull more than 280,000 chickens on Friday, officials said as they try to...

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Defunct Zuarungu Meat Factory To Become Modern Abattoir

The Upper East Regional Minister, Rockson Bukari Ayine, has hinted that the defunct Zuarungu meat factory will be...

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Butcher Shops Razed Amid Crackdown On Beef In India

Arson has not been ruled out after blazes tore through three butcher's shops in Uttar Pradesh, days after the state's...

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Butcher Shops Razed Amid Crackdown On Beef In India

Indian police said Wednesday they were not ruling out arson after fire gutted three butcher shops in Uttar Pradesh...

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Hong Kong Bans Brazilian Meat Imports

Hong Kong became the latest government to suspend imports from Brazil Tuesday in the wake of a rotten meat scandal....

Business

Ban Poultry Importation

The Ghana Charismatic Bishops' Conference (GCBC) has said that instead of pursuing a one district one factory policy,...

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British Ranch Owner Murder Suspect Held In Kenya

A Kenyan court on Tuesday remanded a suspect in custody over the murder of a British man who was shot dead on his ranch...

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Antibiotic-Free Meat Gets A Foothold In US

Facing pressure from environmentalists and shareholder activists, major US food companies and restaurant chains are...

Business

Over 150,000 Eggs In Ghana Go Waste Annually

The Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers has told Citi Business News over 10% of eggs produced annually are...