The Kannur District Collector has ordered the culling of pigs in privates farms after African swine flu was confirmed at North Nazhaliparambil in Udayagiri gram panchayat.
District Collector S Chandrasekhar, chairman of the District Disaster Management Authority, ordered the immediate culling and burying of all the pigs in the four farms and monitoring of the disease within a radius of 10 km outside the epicentre
District Animal Husbandry Officer (in-charge) V. Prashanth said that the disease was confirmed in the farm owned by Tony Mathew on Monday. However, there are six other farms in the affected area.
