Thailand: Deputy Agriculture Minister urges Department of Livestock Development to speed up control of lumpy skin disease; reveals compensation criteria for dead cow-buffalo

Mr. Prapat Phothasuthon, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, said that from the epidemic situation of Lumpi-Skin disease. Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives by the Department of Livestock Development has closely monitored the situation and urgently solved the problem to control the disease especially in the northeastern region with outbreaks in many provinces, which on May 25, 2021, the Ministry of Agriculture together with the provincial governor and related departments organized Kick off activities to campaign for the prevention and elimination of Lumpy-Skin Disease across the country and visited the area to closely inspect the epidemic situation in Khon Kaen, Mukdahan and Sakon Nakhon provinces. As for the LSDV vaccine against Lumpy-Skin disease. The Department of Livestock Development has already imported 60,000 doses of the vaccine and it has spread to all areas where the outbreak has occurred. And next week, an additional 300,000 doses of the vaccine will ...