New ASF outbreaks hurt pig companies in Latvia

Published 2023년 2월 3일

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Latvia is currently facing a severe outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF), with over 1,300 infected wild boar reported in 2022, according to Matrins Sergeants of the Food and Veterinary Service. The disease has spread to various regions, including Latgale province and Cesis, Valmiera, and Kurzeme. In an effort to control the spread, the service has implemented a reward system for reporting dead wild boar. The disease has also affected commercial pig farms. The Latvian Pig Producers Association's Dzintra Leiniece highlighted that the low farmgate pig prices in Latvia are due to ASF and oversupply in the European pork market. However, farmers can receive compensation from the state budget for each culled pig if they comply with biosecurity measures.

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Latvia experiences the second wave of ASF, Matrins Sergeants, head of the infectious disease department of the Food and Veterinary Service (PVD), reported. After a relatively calm couple of years, Latvia saw a spike in the number of outbreaks. These tripled in 2022 compared to 2021 “We discovered almost 1,300 infected wild boar last year,” Sergeants said. He added that the situation varies drastically among Latvian regions. “The entire Latgale province is affected, and there are separate cases in Cesis, Valmiera, and Kurzeme. ASF seems to gain a foothold in the Latvian forests.” In September, PVD started paying a reward of € 30 for GPS coordinates directing them to the corpses of wild boar in a bid to tackle the spread of the virus. At that time, the veterinary services registered 20 wild boar that died from ASF per week. ASF is not only killing wild boar. One outbreak last year was registered at a commercial farm with a pig population of around 1,400 animals, Sergeants disclosed. ...

Source: UkrAgroConsult