Crete: Farmers demand compensation for plague, pre-order feed purchases

Published Aug 7, 2024

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Crete is fighting an animal plague, with farmers being urged to disinfect and change to coarse animal feed. The government will check and disinfect animal feed transported from the mainland. Farmers will bear the cost of disinfecting facilities and equipment. The government has not committed to full compensation for affected farmers. Agricultural Associations are calling for protection measures and compensation. A meeting was held to discuss the situation and the need for cooperation to prevent the disease from spreading. A ban on slaughtering goats and sheep, and the movement of animals, has been imposed on the island.

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There is a fight in Crete to prevent the plague from spreading, while the positive scenario is that after two months of disinfection we will have returned to normality with the aim of producing amnoerifia at Christmas. In the meantime, as the Director of the Veterinary Service of Heraklion, Sofia Lambrinidis, emphasizes to AgroTypos, "farmers should focus on disinfection and coarse animal feed (maize, clover, etc.) should be purchased three days in advance, so that and have a virus disabled." However, checks will be made on the animal feed that will be transported to the island from the mainland and at the same time disinfection of the feed of the trucks that transport it. "The government once again throws the ball of responsibility on the farmers themselves, forcing them to bear the cost of disinfecting their stable facilities and equipment. This is how we once again enter the logic of individual responsibility", emphasize the Agricultural Associations of Archana - Asterousia and ...

Source: Agrotypos