Almotamar Net - SANA'A,(Saba) � The consumption of poultry in Yemen fell by 20% due to the huge media campaign and the fears of the bird flu disease, according to informed sources.
The sources added that the Yemenis consume about 150 million chickens yearly; half of them are home-produced.
The sources expected that the consumption percentage would re-rise because of the awareness assumed after campaigns on the nature of the disease that is passed through, as the information affirm, the spray and the bird wastage.
They added that the disease dose not exist in Yemen and the ministries of Health, Agriculture and Environment took strict measures to ward off it, including carrying out precautionary awareness campaign among the public as for the preventative actions that should be taken.