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Starting today, Food Safety Agency officials will go from house to house in small settlements in northern Bulgaria to verify that farmers have complied with the order to voluntarily kill pigs in their yards. The deadline for this expired yesterday and the fine is from one hundred to one thousand levs.
Efforts by veterinary authorities in Ruse are currently aimed at controlling the outbreak of African swine fever in the area of Byala, where a sick pig was found in a farmyard. In the area, 140 animals will be euthanized in 6 unregistered small farms.
Dr. Georgi Dyakov, Director of the Regional Directorate of the BFSA - Rousse: Now Byala is already becoming an outbreak of infection.
Wild pigs with positive virus samples were found in the villages of Chervena Voda and Gorno Ablanovo in Ruse. No euthanasia and animal burial have been completed in any pig farm in Ruse. It is expected to happen within 5 days.
Today will begin the first protests of farmers dissatisfied with the slaughter of domestic pigs across the country.
The European Commission has approved the costs that Bulgaria has incurred to combat African swine fever in 2020 and will reimburse 75% of them, the Food Agency reports.
Russian authorities have banned imports of animal products from China to Russia today, as well as Chinese national visits to the country, Izvestia newspaper reported.
About 3 BGN is the difference in the price of pork compared to last year.
The prices of deli meats are expected to rise by over 10%.
More than 40,000 pigs will be put down in Varna, the reason African swine fever case.
Today, part of 24,500 pigs will be humanely killed in at the industrial pig complex Tetrahib AD near the village of Nikola Kozlevo in Shumen.
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