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Growing Charges
Wage rates paid by the integrators to chick rearers based on specified performance criteria.
Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)
These are practices and systems required to be adapted in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and food products and relate to the quality of these products. GMPs are guidance practices that outline the aspects of production and testing that can impact the quality of a product.
Foot-and-mouth Disease (FMD)
Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is a highly contagious viral disease affecting both large and small ruminants, and is transmitted by the picorna virus, the prototypic member of the genus aphthovirus. The virus can survive in contaminated fodder and in the environment for up to a month, depending on temperature and pH conditions. FMD is not a zoonotic disease and cannot be transmitted to humans.
Extensive rearing
Rearing systems under which livestock are grazed on open pasture lands and village common lands, with minor supplementation of feed. Usually livestock rearers combine open grazing rearing systems with stall-feeding, depending on the availability of fodder from the commons.
Extensive range management system
This refers to the practice of free grazing over vast tracts of land, usually without the use of any supplemental feed
Exotic
An animal or group of animals introduced into an environment or location to which they are not native.
Ex Situ
The maintenance of an organism or group of organisms away from the place where they naturally occur.
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