Suresh Dollabhai Prajapat (63) has run his Diamond Poultry Farm in Navapur through two bird flu outbreaks. He rebuilt after 2006 and survived 2021. On May 2, as officers finished culling the last of his 11,000 chickens, he decided he was done. “This time I don’t have any strength left,” he told The Indian Express . Navapur, a town in Maharashtra’s Nandurbar district, is one of western India’s most productive egg-supply hubs, pushing nearly 10 lakh eggs daily to markets in Mumbai , Surat , Jalgaon and Nashik. It has now been hit by bird flu three times, in 2006, 2021, and now. Each time, the industry has shrunk a little more. The current outbreak began quietly. On April 12, Prajapat found five dead chickens in his shed and assumed it was heatstroke. A vet prescribed medicines. By afternoon, 50 more were dead. By the next morning, over 300. Farms nearby were reporting the same thing.…