The Association of the Belgian Meat Industry is confident that the ASF virus spread to Belgium from Eastern Europe, where a number of countries have already suffered from this disease.

More than 20,000 pigs must be disposed due to the ASF at one of the farm of the village of Dragaline. The media reported that the carcasses there would not be burned, but buried on the territory of the enterprise. As a result, local residents fear that this could lead to water contamination in the zone. In addition, Romanian journalists pay attention to the fact that the sanitary norms are not observed at the farm.

"The government is flexible enough and mobile and responds promptly to industry requests. The Ministry of Agrarian Policy, in close cooperation with the Association of Farmers and Private Landowners, and public organizations have developed changes that significantly reduce the list of documents and requirements for potential recipients of financial support, and also expand preferences for farmers and cooperatives," the First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Maksym Martyniuk commented.

Thus, under the program for supporting the development of livestock production, 547.4 million UAH was paid, while the volume of applications for grants received as of September 14, 2018 is 311 million UAH.

"Demand for dairy products will grow faster than supply. IT solutions for greater awareness will serve the dairy industry to determine the growth potential of the sector," IFCN Managing Director Torsten Hemme said.

Presenting long-term and short-term forecasts, IFCN analysts noted that the growth in demand for milk until 2030 is estimated at 304 million tons.

"Only those who search for and transport corpses of wild boars will be allowed to stay in the forest." Events and forest works are forbidden," he said.

It bears reminding that two cases of African swine fever (ASF) were recorded in the Belgian province of Luxembourg.

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September 13, 2018 — at SE “Panfyly Experimental Station” located in the village of Panfyly, Yahotyn district of the Kyiv region.

According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food, today the operators of the freight market argue that Ukrzaliznytsya performs only 45% of applications for wagons. Also in the ministry noted that now there was also a problem of transportation routing, when the advantage in transportation is given to those who are ready to form the whole freight train.

- There are more than one hundred agrarian professional associations in our country. You decided to create another - the Ukrainian Stock Breeders Association (the USBA). How and why did this idea arise?

The Ukrainian side was headed by the Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine on European Integration Olha Trofimtseva, and German side - by the Parliamentary Secretary of State of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture of Germany Michael Stübgen.