Goat farmers in Kerala can look forward to better times. The scourge that blights their herds may soon be under control. The Department of Animal Husbandry is set to begin production of the PPR vaccine against goat plague, a dreaded animal disease often leading to mass mortality.
The vaccine will be produced by the Institute for Animal Health and Veterinary Biologicals at Palode, near here, with technical knowhow from the Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteshwar.
Minister for Animal Husbandry K.P. Mohanan is scheduled to release the vaccine at a function to be held here on Wednesday.
IAHVB produces vaccines for several poultry and livestock diseases including Ranikhet disease, duck plague, anthrax, swine fever, and mastitis.
