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Village residents massively refuse to see pigs in the pigsty, an inspection by a journalist in the country showed, writes Telegraf.
Although since the beginning of September an ordinance of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food has allowed ranchers to inhabit the backyard with pigs for home rearing, the number of applicants is almost five times less than before the outbreak of the African plague in the region of Ruse.
According to the BFSA, the applications submitted for the registration of livestock holdings of the “personal farm” type for raising pigs in the country in early October 2020 are 6,139.
5,070 sites where pigs can be kept have passed the registration procedure.
In addition to the fear of ASF, farmers point out the unaffordable measures that must be implemented by order of the BFSA. Many of the surveyed villagers said the measures were good, but for farms with more than 10 to 20 pigs.
And for farms the “backyard” type should be eliminated, because the 2-3 pigs raised were at most for their own consumption, not for trade.
In Veliko Tarnovo, for example, until last year, almost every household had a grumpy pet for Christmas, with one in three families raising two, three or more for their own consumption.
In the Ruse region, 4.5 times fewer farmers want pigs in their backyard than before the African plague.
This was announced by Svilen Ivanov, regional deputy governor and president of the Interdepartmental Commission of Epizootics in Ruse.
He clarified that so far 174 farmers have submitted applications for a new resettlement of “backyard” sites, 126 of which have received a permit and 48 expect to receive a positive opinion.
Before the African swine fever crisis, 780 were private farms in the Ruse region where pigs were raised.
Fear of the African plague is the main reason given by the surveyed farmers. After dozens of people were forced to slaughter their pigs last year, this year they are adamant that they don’t want to suffer the same losses and worries.
“After this epidemic, the Food Agency forced people to register a pig farm.
We have 86 registered in Sovolyano, but there are no pigs in them. People massacred them last year and are convinced that they will not take them now, “explains the town’s mayor, Plamen Iliev.
According to him, now that the owners have bought a pig, it is mandatory to call a vet to take a blood sample.
After that, however, it is mandatory that she be taken for an examination in Blagoevgrad and only after it is established that the pig is not sick is the registration started.
“Before the registration was free, now everything is complicated and people just give up. The paperwork is very big, not to mention that they pay for the blood sample, which is 60 BGN.
Personally, I will not allow anyone to care for pigs until they take a blood sample, because the act is too big for this violation, “said Plamen Iliev, who is also a veterinarian.
He added that there is concern among people about the return of the African plague and the possible slaughter of pigs.
The situation is identical in the village of Slokoshtitsa in Kyustendil. There, the mayor of the village Venera Ilieva says that two or three are the other owners who have pigs in their pens.
The reason is again the same: the cumbersome procedure to register an animal object and the fear of returning the infection. “Although farmers can raise pigs, they don’t want to. They say they were lost last year,” Ilieva explained.
Second, the villagers set the requirements for raising pigs, which, in their opinion, were unbearable.
They mainly refer to the requirements for the minimum area required to keep an animal, the equipment used, the places for the storage and decontamination of manure and waste. Also, the sty should be equipped with a special place for cleaning, disinfection.
People should enter the sites with only special clothing and footwear. And if they decide to euthanize the animals, the owners must notify the veterinarians at least 24 hours in advance.
For most of the people in the Tarnovo villages, these requirements were set to prevent them from raising more pigs as they were practically unviable.
“It just came to our attention then. To meet your requirements, I have to waste more money than if I buy a 150-160 kg raised and slaughtered pig.
And it will be even cheaper for me to buy two pure meat shoulders in a promotional store. I know they will not be from Bulgarian pigs, but imported.
But that was exactly the aim of the plague, to kill our domestic pigs and make us buy those from Europe. Well, they did it, “Ivan Nikolov from Parvomaytsi village is angry.
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