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A Poultry Technical Seminar was organized by Vaksindo Animal Health Pvt. Ltd. on 1st May’2022 at Manjeera Sarovar Premiere. This seminar was organized to discuss “Respiratory Disease Control with special reference to ND , IB and Infectious Coryza”.

The meeting was attended by progressive poultry farmers of Anaparthy , East Godawari district , Andhra Pradesh. Mr. Subba Reddy-Dhanalxmi poultry farms, Mr. Sachnarayan Reddy-SKR Poultries and Dr. Krishna Reddy, Dr. S.S. Prasad-Srinivasa farms - graced the technical seminar with their special attendance.

Mr. B. Ranga Rao, Director- Vaksindo India and Dr. Ganesh Darban, Technical Service Manager presented on efforts taken by Vaksindo Animal Health in last two years on disease monitoring in all poultry belts of India with special reference to AndhraPradesh, their disease control strategies and making available the research based services and solutions for poultry.

Vaksindo’s legacy of manufacturing antigenically matching vaccines with high antigen mass would help to -

• 1. Minimize cost of disease control in India
• 2. Minimizing disease threats in the minds of the farmers
• 3. Improve the performance of progressive farmers

Expert Speaker was Dr. V. Gowthaman, PhD. from Namakkal presented the importance of disease control strategies for respiratory diseases. He opined that minimizing predisposing factors of various diseases should be prioritized. Indian layer farmers are facing egg production drop which need comprehensive approach for investigation. Infectious Coryza due to variant B serovars, Velogenic Viscerotropic ND caused by either Genotype VII or Genotype XIII, LPAI and variant IBV serotypes are mainly responsible for respiratory diseases in poultry. Better quality vaccines with good vaccination schedule should be the approach towards controlling diseases in poultry.