PIG DEATHS AT GOVERNMENT OWNED MAINAGURI PIG FARM

TNI News Service

Webdesk, TNI Mainaguri, 29th July 2014: In a state-run farm at Ramshai of Mainaguri at least twenty pigs have been found dead. Officials have sent the sample of the blood to the lab for testing immediately. The coordinator of the farm Mr. Biplab Das told the press that the deaths might have occurred by heart failure as per the spot investigations. However, to confirm tests are also conducted. The farm has seen a huge rise of the pig’s population over the last few days as many pigs are brought from Siliguri, Jalpaiguri and Coochbehar districts due to the pig cleaning of an area in wake of Japanese Encephalitis virus in those districts.

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