Our Correspondent Imphal, July 12 (EMN): The cases of contagious African Swine Fever (ASF) have been once again detected at a piggery farm Manipur’s Bishnupur District, officials said on Monday. The ASF cases were first detected at Dang Farming, a private piggery farm under Grihang village in Kamjong district earlier this year while pigs of a government run piggery farm at Hiyanglam in Kakching district were also detected last month. The ASF was detected among the pigs in the Rainbow Piggery Farm located at Leimaram Makha Leikai village under Bishnupur district. The Bishnupur district officials said it has become expedite to issue containment measures to prevent spread of the disease in the area in view of the impending threat of the disease. “The areas falling within 1 km radius from the Epicenter of the disease is declared as infected zone and areas falling within 9 km radius from the Infected zone is hereby declared as surveillance zone for taking up control and containmen
Our CorrespondentImphal, June 25 (EMN): After detecting the contagious African swine fever (ASF) at a piggery in Manipur’s Kamjong district on June 2, positive cases of ASF were also reported at the state-run pig breeding farm at Hiyanglam in Kakching district, officials said on Saturday. Deputy Commissioner of Kakching issued an order in this regard on Friday and took up the necessary containment measures in the geographical areas of the pig breeding farm at Hiyanglam in view of the impending threat of ASF to prevent the spread of the disease in the area. The breeding farm at Hiyanglam has been declared as “control areas” for ASF under Section 6 of “The prevention and control of infectious and contagious diseases in animal Act, 2002”. “No pig shall be moved from the place where it is kept within the controlled area”, the DC said in the order and banned the sale of pig, pork, feed and related items. It further stated that the area falling within one km from the epicentre
Our Correspondent Imphal, June 2 (EMN): After Nagaland, Mizoram, Tripura and Meghalaya, cases of the contagious African swine fever (ASF) were detected at a