Chile: Herds of animals begin to return from the summer in the province of Biobío

Published 2024년 4월 16일

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The Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG) of Biobío, led by Roberto Ferrada, is actively engaged in the annual clinical surveillance and sampling of approximately 26,000 livestock animals in the Andes mountain range. This initiative aims to ensure the animals, including cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and horses, are free from exotic diseases as they move to summer grazing areas, known as veranadas. The SAG's comprehensive approach involves risk evaluation, health measure definition, and disease inspections and sampling for conditions such as Caprine Brucellosis, Bluetongue, and Foot and Mouth Disease. Additionally, the SAG supports ranchers with service points in locations like the commune of Antuco, streamlining procedures for animal unloading and other related activities.

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In this regard, the regional director of the SAG of Biobío, Roberto Ferrada, highlighted that “the work we do as a Service is very relevant. Today we are verifying the conditions of descent of these animals, which came up in November of last year. "The SAG carries out clinical surveillance and sampling, in order to verify that the livestock mass that is in these official grazing fields are free of exotic diseases of interest to the Agricultural and Livestock Service." In this sense, he indicated that the use of veranadas is an ancestral custom, which has been maintained over the years, in which ranchers take their animals to graze in the Andes mountain range. For this reason and to avoid the probability of any disease entering the national territory, the SAG evaluates the risks each season and with this, health measures are defined, such as population control, health education and serological sampling, among others. This season the SAG authorized the upload of some 26 thousand ...

Source: Agromeat