Online posts claiming chickens are linked to outbreak have battered the industry. FMTNews
NEW DELHI: Indian poultry sales have been plunging on rumours spread by social media claiming that chickens are linked to the coronavirus, according to the country’s top animal feed company.
“The damage is so severe that whatever we have done in the past seven months will be wiped out if the decline in sales continues for the next one to two months,” Yadav said.Much is still not known about the virus that’s spreading around the world after emerging in central China late last year. India’s US$14 billion poultry industry provides direct and indirect employment to 5 million people and supports more than 25 million farmers. With an annual production of 67,000 million eggs, India ranks second in the world.“Integrated companies and farmers are losing money because of rumors about the coronavirus, which has nothing to do with chickens.
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