“We want to avoid Lockdown, it will have consequences for the agricultural economy,” the Minister of Rural Development said Thursday morning Costas Tsiarasreferring to the plan to limit the smallpox in sheep and goats.
However, as he told Mega, some are hiding the cases of smallpox and thus spread the disease. At the same time he said that ‘no ratings are justified in meat“As he” there is no lamp lamp “.
Asking breeders to comply with bio -security measures, the Minister of Rural Development explained that ‘In the extraordinary action plan We said that for 10 days all veterinarians will be found in the Ministry of Development where there is an intensity of outbreaks to check if the bio -security measures are observed. The large number of cases is in Thessaly and Achaia. “
Asked about the blessing vaccine, he said that there is no licensed in the European Union.
As he noted, “Last year, we had to deal with an extensive animal animal disease that was the plague for the first time. At the end of August, the symptoms of smallpox appeared. While the plague virus lives only 21 days, the blessing virus lives about 6 months. This means that there is a possibility of the virus transmission and in a calm state. All of these diseases are treated under a European directive, where it is foreseen exactly what every country -Member State should do when facing such a disease. “
OPECEPE
Mr Tsiaras also referred to the OPEKEPE case, stressing that the government’s will is to close the refund capital: “Already after a check on 2,000 farmers who have received high subsidies, they found that they received more than 22m euros they were not entitled to. They are called upon to return them and the process has already begun. “