JICA donates Rs. 8M drugs to protect livestock from diseases caused by floods
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has yesterday (03) delivered a stock of drugs worth Rs. 8 million to Agriculture and Plantation Industries to protect livestock from diseases that can affect cattle, goats, poultry and pigs due to the current flood situation. These stocks of medicinal drugs are handed over to Agriculture and Plantation Industries Minister Mahinda Amaraweera.
This stock of medicinal drugs includes a large number of antibiotics and drugs used for injections. JICA chief representative Yamada Tetsuya, representatives Mizuno Tsuyoshi and Senior Representative Noguchi Takuma and project expert Prasad Nishanka also participated.
The Minister said that this stock of medicine is to be distributed to the farmers who are engaged in the livestock sector representing all the 09 provinces in the country, and for that, steps will be taken to give the stock of medicine to the Department of Animal Production and Health.
Meanwhile, the Minister expressed his views to the media regarding the damage caused to livestock sectors due to the prevailing rainy weather.
The Minister emphasized that many farms with pigs have been destroyed due to the floods that have affected some areas due to heavy rains in the last two days, and many small-scale poultry farms have been destroyed.
Also, the Minister emphasized that there is a risk of vegetable prices rising in the near future as many commercial vegetable plantations have been destroyed.
The Minister also mentioned that although the consumption of chicken meat and eggs has increased due to the increase in fish prices, the chicken production companies and poultry farm owners have agreed to not increase the chicken meat at this time.
Secretary of Agriculture and Plantation Industries Janaka Dharmakirthi and Ministerial Advisor K. H. Karunaratne and others participated.
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