Hungary: Support for sheep and goat farmers comes with an urgent deadline

The state ensures the prevention of scrapie for sheep and goat farmers in the form of a one-time non-refundable subsidy of 65 million forints. At the expense of national funds, the Ministry of Agriculture created the possibility of funding to cover the genotyping costs of scrapie affecting sheep and goats. The reason for this is that the European Union co-financed resource available in previous years will cease to exist in 2024. The goal, in line with epidemiological control, is to filter out individuals susceptible to scrapie, so that the disease cannot spread in sheep and goat herds. Based on the support program with a HUF 65 million budget, the sheep or goat breeder is eligible for support whose 2024 cost of scrapie genotyping performed on his livestock has been advanced by the Hungarian Sheep and Goat Breeders' Association. The basis of the subsidy is the number of samples taken from the animal keeper's livestock for the genotyping test of scrapie, the amount can be no more ...