Uploaded on 2020-03-10 by CHALLA VADDE THARUN KUMAR

Today close to one billion people in developing countries suffer from chronic malnutrition, surviving on inadequate starch-based diets. A further two billion in emerging countries aspire to eat more diverse and nutritious diets – with more meat, milk and eggs, at the top of their wish-lists. As well as being rich sources of high quality protein, meat, milk and eggs also supply a range of essential micro-nutrients, many of which are scarce or absent in plant-based diets. Consumption of adequate amounts of these nutrients is essential if children are to be healthy and grow and develop normally, going on to fulfil their potential as healthy and productive members of society. By 2050, global consumption of meat will double. The vast majority of that increased demand will occur in developing countries. Chicken meat is expected to make up almost half of the extra consumption of meat from now until the year 2022. Preventing poultry diseases and reducing death rates are important ways of boosting productivity. Vaccination of poultry in the hatchery rather than on the farm is proving to be more effective by allowing more efficient use of renewable resources – so Ceva has made this approach one of its major