Agriculture Minister Limber Cross said that the outbreak of African Swine Fever (PPA) that has affected the production and sale of pigs in the country has been “quite controlled” in recent days.
“The fever has been decreasing and the disease has been disappearing, there are provinces where we have more than a week that we do not kill a single pig because it has been controlled enough, we carry this like the bull by the horns, as they say, “argued Cruz to the media before the start of an activity in the province of Monte Plata, with the presence of President Luis Abinader.
Payment to pig farmers
Creu also reported that so far more than RD $ 200 million has been paid to those pig farmers whose livestock has had to be slaughtered for the disease and that this figure could exceed 300 million pesos over the next weekend.
“Today we will pay here RD $ 28.7 million, this adding to what we have paid in other provinces exceed RD $ 200 million“We will pay at a rate of between four days and a week since the pigs are eliminated and next weekend we will be paying in Bonao and San Francisco de Macoris and that would put us over 300 million,” said the minister of ‘Agriculture.
The official exclaimed that he is pending whether some of the technicians or producers “want to be alive” and register more pigs than were actually eliminated so as to keep the extra money.
Creu also added that President Abinader also ordered a plan to see if they can get these pig farmers to raise other livestock such as chicken, laying hens, goats, among others.