Compensation for culling poultry with avian influenza is going backwards in South Korea

[Reporter Donghwi Seo of Livestock Newspaper] Discussion of realistic improvement of farmhouses... Winter without change Laying hens “reasonable to apply the average price one week before slaughter” Broilers and ducks call for ‘cost compensation’ rather than market price compensation “Incentive policy should increase the will to quarantine” public opinion Starting with the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (AI) in Korea in the winter of November 2020, until March 28, when the special quarantine period ended, a total of 106 AI cases occurred in poultry farms. In addition, a total of 108 cullings were carried out, and the number of slaughtered poultry reached 30 million. As a result, many farmers have suffered this year as well. Moreover, the farmhouses that carried out preventive slaughter due to the implementation of the government's related quarantine measures, not the case of AI in the farm, should at least cause no damage, but in reality, this was not the case. ...