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Newcastle Disease vaccine retailer in Odisha, India

Newcastle Disease vaccine: Creating sustainability through commercial delivery systems

 

Making livestock vaccines and medicines easily accessible to smallholder farmers is a vital component of the value chain. If the vaccines are beyond reach, the farmers will not benefit and their livestock will suffer. In Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, India, local retail shops provide the much needed solution to a glaring gap by stocking and making readily available, essential livestock vaccines and medicines such as the Newcastle Disease (ND) vaccine. Often, they are regular medicine shop owners, who are now finding that stocking vaccines such as the ND vaccine profitable. Furthermore, these retail shops have the required equipment and knowledge such as cold chain storage management to ensure that the quality of the vaccines are not compromised.

 

For full story see www.galvmed.org/diseases/newcastle-disease-vaccine-creati....

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Uploaded on September 7, 2017
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