The Department of Agriculture in the Berekum West District of the Bono Region has dismissed reports suggesting an outbreak of Bird Flu in the area.

The clarification follows the death of several birds at a poultry farm in the district, which some sections of the media had attributed to Bird Flu.

Speaking to Citi News, the District Director of Agriculture, Frederick Kwasi Danso, has refuted the claims, stressing that there is no confirmed case of Bird Flu in Berekum West.

According to him, the birds died largely due to poor management and lack of feed, rather than any disease outbreak.

“We don’t have bird flu in Berekum West. As I speak to you, we only have a farmer who brought day-olds and couldn’t feed them. He brought 10,000 to the district, precisely to a community known as Amomaso.

“The farmer was overwhelmed. He is a new farmer and he brought broilers. Broilers consume the highest amount of feed.

“The amount of feed the birds consumed in two weeks overwhelmed him and instead of seeking other alternatives to raise funds to feed the birds, he relaxed. He is based in Accra. When his employees complained about the quantity, he thought they were lying. Meanwhile he had not paid his employees for a whole month so they abandoned the farm,” he explained