What are the "living dead" in sheep farming and is a catastrophic scenario coming for the sector?

2025 was one of the hardest years for livestock farmers, Simeon Karakolev, co-chair of the National Sheep and Goat Association (NOSA), told Agri.BG. According to him, the sector has gone through a complex epizootic situation, difficult-to-implement measures, and strong psychological pressure on farmers – and "the bigger problem is that this is not the end." "We are between the second and third wave of the lumpy skin disease in Bulgaria" According to him, the current lull – with only three or four active outbreaks – is misleading. "This is the plateau between the waves. I hope we don't enter the third, because it means at least 40 thousand infected animals. The crisis management model in Greece is the bad example that we should not follow," Karakolev warned. He added that the economic damage in our southern neighbor is already approaching the entire volume of dairy product exports to third countries – "an absurd situation that Bulgaria cannot afford." The vaccine – a target of ...