(Business in Cameroon) - The regional delegation of the Ministry of Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Industries (Minepia) for the Central region, has also launched the operations to empty farms, after close to a month of ban on the sale of chicken, following the discovery of a bird flu outbreak in May.

According to Gaston Meyebe, the Regional Delegate, who is planning the official lifting of the ban on the sale of chicken in this region for mid-August; the cargoes of chicken which thus came out of farms after receiving a technical approval from Minepia’s agents, will be sold on test markets specially set up in some sites deemed sanitary.

According to the same source, the farms thus emptied will be disinfected and left empty for at least a month, before restarting operations, after receiving an endorsement from the veterinaries of the Ministry of Livestock. As a reminder, it was in the Central region that the first outbreak of bird flu was discovered in May, creating a stir in the poultry sector, as the epizooty spread to three other regions (South, West end Adamaoua) in Cameroon. The ban on the sale of chicken was officially lifted this month of July in the Southern and Western regions.

BRM