Mentan: 30 Provincial Bird Flu Not Freed

Friday, 05 February 2010, 16:13 pm


SUKABUMI - A total of 30 provinces in Indonesia are still not free from bird flu pacification. Impact, poultry exports to other countries can still be done.

Data from the Ministry of Agriculture says there are only three provinces that the bird flu-free North Maluku, Gorontalo, and recently West Kalimantan. There are as many as''30 provinces that have not been free from bird flu,''said Minister of Agriculture, Suswono after declaring a national movement of livestock breeders healthy and unhealthy, Tenjolaya Village, Sub Cicurug, Sukabumi District, Friday (5 / 2).

National movement that aimed to improve community health status. Announce activities centered on the location of movement farmer group farm Ayam Kampung Sukabumi (Kepraks).

Suswono According to the government to prioritize the handling of bird flu cases. Thus, expected in the next year, there are a number of other provinces, which is free from the flu is still being done by burung''Penanganannya National Avian influenza and therein, including the Minister of Agriculture,''said Suswono.

The existence of the National Commission on Avian Influenza itself in the near future will soon be replaced with a new institutional. Suswono added, if the bird flu problem could be overcome so Indonesia could take advantage of export opportunities abroad extraordinary. But unfortunately, the potential of the poultry sector in Indonesia, which has been realized only reached 60 percent.

These conditions Suswono light, either because the bird flu problem. Movement declaration healthy farm, a government effort to overcome the spread of avian flu burung''Pemeliharaan will not open or removed, because it will not be profitable,''said Suswono. The reason such a system maintenance is very vulnerable to the spread of disease and difficult to control.

Regent Sukabumi, Sukmawijaya, added that his party supports the efforts of bird flu made the central government. Among the activities of bio tightening security, culling of birds positive for bird flu vaccination of healthy poultry, and so forth.

Sukmawijaya explained, in early 2010, in Sukabumi District, has been one case of mass deaths of 569 birds tail. The case is currently being handled by the Department of Animal Husbandry (Disnak) of Kenya.