About Quarantine

"Quarantine" means the process to confirm any animal, animal products or animal production inputs whether diseased or not and put such animal, animal products or animal production or inputs in isolation in specific place, together with or separately for a period of time as prescribed for their inspection.

Nepal is a landlocked country. It has about 1700 km open borders with its neighboring country, India. The open border may facilitate the free movement of animal and thus, may create high risk of entry of infectious animal disease in the country . The infectious animal diseases are the major problem in livestock farming .e.g. FMD in cattle buffalo, PPR in sheep/goat, IBD, Avian influenza in poultry. It is estimated that the loss of livestock due to various diseases, lack of their productivity etc. is causing loss of billions of rupees annually. Thus, it is essential to control existing economically important animal diseases and to prevent the entry of exotic animal diseases to make livestock farming profitable. Animal quarantine system plays vital role in this regard. Read More...