Processors will be able to make up the difference by buying more meat from local poultry farms.

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This is significant because it strongly supports bird conservationists, who have been arguing that most outbreaks in South-East Asia can be linked to movements of poultry and poultry products or infected material from poultry farms, such as mud on vehicles or people's shoes.

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Despite spending his entire adult life in the U.S., Babar was still familiar with the Pakistani farm economy, thanks to his family, which owns the country's largest processor of grains and seeds and also includes flour mills, animal feeds, poultry farms and edible oils (canola, corn and sunflower).

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Agribusiness farming operations are notorious for nitrogen and phosphorus runoff (particularly from poultry and hog farms).

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Unlike the poultry in commercial farms, which are kept in isolation, these chickens and ducks are free to roam, and contract bird flu.

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Two years ago, a European Union-wide health alert was sparked when German officials said animal feed tainted with dioxin had been fed to hens and pigs, contaminating eggs, poultry meat and pork at affected farms.

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"Farming is at the heart of our business and we are extremely proud to work with poultry farmers who employ the highest standards on their farms, ensuring sustainability, welfare and product quality are their priorities, " he said.

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