GHANA GETS HARMONIZED POULTRY VACCINATION PROTOCOL

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The Veterinary Services Division of the Ministry of Food and Agriculture and the Ghana Poultry Project have developed and released a national harmonized Protocol for vaccination in poultry towards effective risk management and optimization of production in the local poultry production.

 At a forum in the Oforikrom Municipality of the Ashanti region to sensitize poultry farmers to the relevance of the Protocol to disease management on their farms, a Veterinary Surgeon and Vice Chairman of the Veterinary Council, Dr. Jonathan Amakye-Anim, described the harmonized vaccination protocol as a monumental achievement towards the fight against the Gumboro and New Castle diseases plaguing the industry. 

Poultry production in Ghana has over the years been plagued by mostly viral and bacterial infections that cause disease outbreaks. The commonest of such diseases have been the Newcastle, Gumboro, Fowl pox and recently, the Avian Flu which when break out on a poultry farm usually result in higher fatality among the birds.

Even though it is globally acknowledged that strict application of disease-prevention management techniques at the farm and trade level are fundamentally important in minimizing the risk of disease introduction to poultry farms, vaccination by farmers and experts have been very haphazard, hence the difficulty in finding lasting solutions to most of the disease outbreaks. 

It was against this background that the United States Department of Agriculture through the Ghana Poultry Project in partnership with the Veterinary Services Department of Ghana’s Ministry of Food and Agriculture, set out to develop a one-stop national vaccination Protocol for the local poultry industry.

 Dr. Amakye-Anim cautioned that despite the national harmonized vaccination schedule, poultry farmers could only realize the full benefits when they adhere to other equally important management practices such as biosecurity, medication and sanitation. 

The Chief of Party of the Ghana Poultry Project, Madam Carianne de Boer, noted that the Harmonized National Poultry Vaccination Protocol is yet another demonstration of the Ghana Poultry Project and the United States Department of Agriculture’s partnership with the Ghana government and private sector to drive the local poultry industry growth in particular, and the country’s overall development agenda.

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