A new outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) has been detected on a small farm in the eastern Lithuanian district of Ignalina, some 1.5 kilometres from the border with Belarus, the State Food and Veterinary Service said on Monday.
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A mandatory requirement has been announced in Lithuania to register all pigs by 15 September. Registration will be free of charge.
The Baltic countries and Poland have not yet finalized their joint request to the European Commission for support in the fight against African Swine Fever (ASF), Lithuania's chief veterinary officer, who is coordinating the drafting of the document, said on Thursday.
The State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) reports that dead pigs were found in two farms located in Ignalina district. Laboratory testing confirmed African swine fever (ASF) in both cases.
Lithuanian pig farmers claim that due to African swine fever (ASF) they have suffered losses amounting to LTL 30 million (EUR 8.7 million).
A dead wild boar infected with African Swine Fever (ASF) was found near the Rupinskai pig complex in Ignalina district last weekend.
With Russia having closed its market to most European food products, the first month will be the most difficult for Lithuanian producers, the director of the Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service said on Monday.
Several Lithuanian trucks are stuck at the Lithuanian-Belarusian border and the Latvian-Estonian border amid Russia's ban on the import of food products from the EU, the director of the Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Service has informed on Friday.
The second outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) has been reported in Lithuania.
A Spanish laboratory has confirmed that pigs on a large farm in eastern Lithuania were infected with the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus, which came from Russia and Belarus.
