Poultry industry safe despite AI outbreak

The emergence of a new type of avian influenza (AI) in Central Java at the end of 2012 has spread throughout Java recently. Until today, more than 300,000 dead-duck cases have been reported by farms all over Java. However, the AI does not affect chickens since it is a different AI strain from the one infecting chickens.

Additionally, with tight bio-security and vaccined chickens, we believe AI, known informally as avian flu or bird flu, is a managed risk within the poultry sector, particularly for the larger and more technologically advanced companies.