"Only Positive Individuals Should Be Culled at the First Reported Foot-and-Mouth Disease Farm"

Published 2025년 5월 16일

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As the government implements a vaccine policy to prevent and control foot-and-mouth disease, claims have been raised that standards for culling, compensation reduction, movement restrictions, and manure disposal should be more realistically relaxed. The Korean Swine Farmers Association (Chairman Son Se-hee) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Minister Song Mi-ryeong) held the '2025 Public-Private-Academic Foot-and-Mouth Disease Prevention Task Force First Response Team Meeting' at the Second Livestock Association Building in Seoul on the 13th. During the meeting, swine farmers proposed various opinions to the government regarding foot-and-mouth disease prevention policies. According to the Swine Farmers Association, for farms that first report a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak

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'First Farm' Entire Pig Culling Excessive Economic Damage Occurring Subsequent Occurrences to Proceed with Positive Cases Only High Possibility of Delayed or Avoided Reporting Preventive Culling Farm Compensation Voices Calling for 100% Compensation Principle Reasonable Mitigation of Movement Restrictions Realistic Livestock Manure Processing Needed As the government implements foot-and-mouth disease vaccination policies, claims have been raised that culling, compensation reduction, movement restrictions, and manure disposal standards should be more realistically relaxed. The Korean Swine Farmers Association (Chairman Son Se-hee) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (Minister Song Mi-ryung) held the '2025 Public-Private-Academic Epidemic Prevention Countermeasures Committee First Foot-and-Mouth Disease Response Team Meeting' on the 13th at the Second Livestock Association Building in Seoul. During the meeting, the swine industry proposed various opinions to the ...

Source: Agrinet