EghtesadOnline: Deputy Agriculture Minister Morteza Rezaei said standardizing the age and weight of broiler chickens produced in Iranian poultry farms is inevitable and highly important to have a bigger share in international markets.

EghtesadOnline: Some 12 million day-old chickens are lost as a result of transportation by unfit vehicles, causing around 7 trillion rials ($166.66 million) in losses to chicken farmers, the secretary of Day-Old Chicken Producers Association said.

EghtesadOnline: The recent avian flu outbreak infecting Iranian poultry farms has been contained and Iran Veterinary Organization has not received any new report of infection in the past two or three weeks.

EghtesadOnline: Major egg producing Iranian provinces, namely Qazvin, Tehran, Alborz and East Azarbaijan, are dealing with an outbreak of avian flu, which has led to the culling of 16 million chicken and a rise in egg prices, the chairman of the board of directors at Tehran’s Union of Producers of Egg-Laying Chicken said.