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For Regulated Poultry Farming

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The poultry industry should formulate a proper regulation and get the government promugulate it to for healthy development of the industry.
 
Running a poultry farm is not as easy an affair as we think. The ongoing bird-flu epidemic proves that. So, it is the poultry farmers association drafts a regulation and asks the government to promugalte it.government brought a separate policy to regulate poultry farming in Nepal. Poultry farming as of now is one of the most unscientific and unmanaged businesses in Nepal. Running farms without health and environmental regulations has been causing pollution to the detriment on public health and environment. Well managed farms have been avoiding the bird-flu problem.
 
Regulating poultry farms is practiced all over the world. The Haryana state government in India, for instance, issued in June 2013a strict guideline for poultry farmers asking them to adopt modern sanitary methods to prevent contamination caused by solid, liquid and air pollution. The state government made it mandatory for poultry farms to make provisions of vegetative screens or barriers to slow airflow and/or redirect odour from the poultry away from human receptors.
 
 Nepal also needs a separate regulatory mechanism to ensure the safety of its citizens as unregulated poultry farms have affected public health in the country. Farms in the middle of residential areas and poultry sheds that stand by public roads, water streams and residential areas are common in the country. It is the government’s obligation of the poultry farmers and the government to protect the public from unwarranted health hazards due to unmanaged and unsystematic farms located in inappropriate places. 
 
The government should promote large scale poultry farms in specific area in order to control disease like bird flu.introducing poultry insurance and encouraging farmers to get their farms insecured will be one solution. With insurance policy against bird flu or other hazards, the farmers will have no incentive to smuggle diseased birds to the market.
 
 Currently, the government has been providing a small amount of cash to farmers for culling bird flu-infected chicken. It would be a far better idea to create a separate fund to finance such insurance cost than providing compensation on an individual basis. 
 
The existing havoc of bird flu is not a one-time scenario. The country may face such problems in the future too. Therefore, government should regulate in the business in manner that will address health and environment safety in poultry farms would go a long way in further modernizing this business.

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