Madrid (EFE).- The Government plans to approve this Tuesday, in the Council of Ministers, a decree of aid for the purchase of cattle that facilitates the replacement and continuity of the activity in the cattle farms of Castilla-La Mancha and of Andalusia affected by sheep/goat pox.
This is a “supplementary” measure to the compensation for the sanitary emptying to which numerous farms have been subjected due to the 26 outbreaks detected in both autonomies, according to what the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, announced on Monday.
The minister has valued the work carried out by the veterinary services of the autonomous communities, in cooperation with the central government, which “has made it possible to limit the spread” of this disease, which is not transmissible to humans.
In Castilla-La Mancha alone, sheep pox has forced the slaughter of more than 45,000 head of cattle while in Andalusia there have been just over 4,000 slaughtered units.