Rastriya Samachar Samiti

Birgunj, March 21:

Experts today stressed on the need to making effective the livestock quarantine management in order to promoting the livestock related industries and controlling diseases likely to spread from neighbouring countries.

For want of proper quarantine management, unhealthy livestock in abundance is being imported every year from India, which not only spreads diseases to livestock in Nepal, but also causes harms to human health, they opined.

Nepal is to bear a loss of millions annually due to different livestock diseases, said Dr Nathar Lal Chaudhary of Parsa Quarantine Check-post, adding that the main cause for the spread of such diseases is lack of quarantine facilities. According to statistics, there are about nine million cattle in Nepal. About 80 per cent farmers keep cows and oxen and more than 50 per cent keep buffaloes, goats and sheep in Nepal.

Meanwhile, livestock quarantine check-posts Bara and Parsa jointly organised an awareness programme in Birgunj recently.