Costas Tsiaras, Minister of Rural Development and Foodhosted on the show “Good morning»And her Faye Mavraganias the Greek livestock farming It is in a very pressing situation, after the spread of blessing throughout the territory.

In the final phase the discussion with the Ministry of Finance for € 20m compensation to breeders

Mr Tsiaras mentioned how likely it is a lockdown for Greek sheep and goats while he announced that the ministry is in the final phase of consultation with the Ministry of Culture to disbursed 20m euros for compensation to breeders who have been forced to kill their animals, while in the coming days, feeds will be given.

Specifically, about whether we are close to Lockdown, which is also the crucial question, replied: “We are neither close nor far away, we want to avoid it. This is the big issue. That is why it was decided, by unanimous decision at a meeting with all the regional governors of the country, to step up the measures in order to activate all the factors involved and to understand that our animal capital is risking here. We must first and foremost be able to, without resorting to, isolate, isolate and limit the smallpox. It is not an easy exercise, because the blessing virus lives for about six months, has a difficult and strange epidemiological model, and we need to all be together, the ministry, the regions that have the responsibility of keeping the bio -healing measures, but also our own farmers, past period“

Then he was asked where the Wrong and the blessing that broke out about a year ago from Evros and arrived all over Greece except Crete “That is why I told you that it is a difficult and strange epidemiological model, this is precisely what I was aiming for, to the fact that while it could be limited to Evros – it seems to be a disease coming from the neighboring country – a county with vast experience in the treatment of animals, Its spread.

It is not always possible to control imported animals. Even grazing animals in an almost common place it is very easy to transmit the smallpox. That is, when animals graze against Evros, simply the mechanical transfer of the virus from one country to another can happen very easily“

The minister was subsequently invited to respond to the information they are talking about Introduction of 200,000 lambs from Romania without checking: “I do not want to get into this logic, because such controls by EU countries are not done. The only one needed is the health certification from the country that leaves animals and in this case we operate in good faith among European countries. We have often raised such issues to the European Commission. There are no checkpoints and disinfection points at the border. I do not believe that this is the reason for the transmission of the disease. When we encountered the plague, we immediately uprooted it. Of course, the plague virus lives for 21 days. Logism lives six months and is easily transmitted“

In terms of estimates of life killerexplained: ‘It is very sad to face the killing of animals. Dictated by a European directive that is very clear as it obliges you to kill the whole herd, even if only one animal has been ill“