German, French and Italian border regions strengthen swine fever approach

Saxony wants to get African swine fever under control more quickly. Due to the high disease pressure from neighboring Poland, a three-step plan has been put into effect to prevent new infected boars from entering the German state. In Poland, more than 3,000 infected boars have already been found this year and 10 outbreaks have been detected at small and large pig farms. 388 infected wild boars have been found in Saxony and 328 in the German state of Brandenburg. The first step is for hunters to clear the white zones in the border area with Poland from wild boars. They receive a premium of 300 euros per boar to reduce the stock to a maximum of 0.2 wild boar per 100 hectares. If this takes too long, third parties with drones will bring back the stock, whereby the white areas will also be closed to farmers. The third step is monitoring, whereby the stock must remain at a maximum of 0.2 wild boars per 100 hectares. The hunters take on that task and are paid for it. The other white ...