Animal death spree in Gujarat: A mountain of grief has broken on the families who run the household only by animal husbandry.

Lumpy Virus Spread In Gujarat: Lumpy virus has spread in 1935 villages of 20 districts of Gujarat… Government has announced toll free number 1962 for cattle rearers… Control room has been started in Gandhinagar…

Navneet Dalwadi/Bhavnagar : 5 more talukas of Bhavnagar district found lumpy virus has spread in total 7 taluks, many cows are dying, more than 50 teams are being worked by the system, but still hundreds of cattle are dying in the district due to lumpy virus. have been done. But only 25 animals have died in the government book. An intensive vaccination campaign has been undertaken by the Animal Husbandry Department to prevent the spread of lumpy virus in all taluks except Bhavnagar, Jessar and Mahuwa.

In Bhavnagar district, many cattle rearers are making a living by producing milk only through animal husbandry without having agricultural land or any other business. One such herdsman is Hamirbhai Bharwad of Ranghola village who has neither any land to cultivate nor any other employment to support his family. Their whole family depends only on animal husbandry.

The joint family of Hamirbhai and his four brothers, younger, older and elder, totaling 45 people, is dependent only on animal husbandry. He earns his living by grazing his cows in the government grazing land and producing milk, his joint family has a total of more than 200 small and big cows, and to feed these 200 cows, he goes out to graze in the gauchar land and the seam area throughout the day with livestock, but Currently, a disaster called Lumpy is looming over his family, out of the 200 cows he has, around 100 cows have fallen ill due to the spread of the Lumpy virus. Lumpy virus has also killed many cows.

A team of Zee Media reached Ranghola village and spoke to Hamirbhai, in which he said that if he did so, his precious livestock would be destroyed, and expressed fear over the situation and appealed to the government for help.

Due to Lumpy virus which has spread widely in many villages of 7 talukas of Bhavnagar district, panic is being seen among the herdsmen after seeing the precious livestock dying in front of their eyes. The animal husbandry department of Baju district is also conducting an intensive vaccination campaign to prevent the spread of Lumpy virus, in which around 20,000 doses have been administered to the animal husbandry department against 2.50 lakh livestock and 85,000 doses have been administered by the best dairy of the district.

Talking about Lumpina Kehar in Bhavnagar district…

• 23 villages of Gariadhar
• 13 villages of Umrala
• Ghoghana 1 village
• 2 villages of Talaja
• 10 villages of Valbhipur
• 8 villages of Sinhore
• 10 villages of Palitana

Thus, Lumpy virus has spread in more than 400 cattle of all these villages and due to which 25 cattle have died, said Kalpesh Baraiya, District Animal Husbandry Officer. Also, more than 50 teams have been formed for all the talukas and vaccination operations have been started in full swing.