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

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 ...