Farmers' Tractor Protest Paralyzes Brussels' European District
Brussels' European District faced significant disruption on Tuesday morning as farmers from various agricultural organizations staged a protest against EU agricultural policy
The Bulgarian state will provide BGN 300 to farmers from the village of Kosti, whose animals were slaughtered over cases of foot-and-mouth disease.
The statement was made Thursday by the Bulgarian PM Boyko Borisov. The Finance Minister Simeon Djankov is visiting the village of Kosti in order to get details on the situation.
On Tuesday, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov announced that Bulgaria will ask the European Commission to fully compensate not only farmers for the slaughtered animals, but also milk, meat and hide processors from the affected regions.
He stated that farmers will be reimbursed for the cost of the animals and three months of profits from them, while all expenses for the elimination of the disease would be undertaken by the government.
The slaughtering of animals in Kosti, which was ordered after the positive results of tests on animals in the region, is scheduled to end by the end of the week.
All ruminant animals were killed by Wednesday. The slaughtering of pigs is scheduled for Thursday and cows will follow from Friday on.
Kosti will remain under quarantine for three months while restrictions in other potentially dangerous areas were dropped on Wednesday.
Naydenov has explained the foot-and-mouth decease is not harmful for people and dismissed fears it can spread through milk and meat sold in grocery stores.
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