Spain: Proposal for direct aid for livestock farms affected by bluetongue and reinforcement of sanitary measures

Published 2024년 10월 9일

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The Union of Farmers and Cattle Ranchers is advocating for direct aid and enhanced sanitary measures for livestock farms affected by bluetongue, a disease impacting Spain's sheep and goat sector. The organization criticizes the current management of the disease and calls for better planning of vaccine purchases by Autonomous Communities. They also recommend covering vaccination costs in voluntary vaccination areas and the development of multivalent vaccines for areas with multiple serotypes. Additionally, they seek equal animal health requirements for imported animals and an annual plan to strengthen surveillance of unregistered small flocks to align with mandatory vaccination campaigns and sanitary measures.

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The Union of Farmers and Cattle Ranchers proposes direct aid for livestock farms affected by bluetongue and a reinforcement of sanitary measures. The sheep and goat sector will present a series of observations focused on achieving an improvement in the management of the disease and greater support for the affected sectors to prepare for it. The organization will present these proposals as observations to the draft Order that updates the regulations regarding bluetongue, which specifically contemplates, among others, direct aid and a reinforcement of sanitary measures. In this sense, it highlights the difficult situation in which the sheep sector is located, and the bovine sector to a lesser extent, in view of the incidence and advance of the bluetongue serotypes that livestock farmers have faced until now in Spain (1, 4 and 8, which in this last campaign have been more aggressive) and the appearance of serotype 3, with a higher mortality rate in sheep and possible production ...

Source: Agroinformacion