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    ARMENPRESS

    GOVERNMENT TO RELEASE 480 MILLION DRAMS TO COMPENSATE
    ASF-CAUSED DAMAGES

    YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 7, ARMENPRESS: The government
    said today it will release 480 million Drams in
    assistance to farmers who had to destroy their pigs to
    prevent the spread of a deadly disease, known as the
    African Swine Fever (ASF) that killed thousands of
    animals last year.
    The distribution of the aid will be handled by the
    agricultural ministry.
    The deputy minister of agriculture, Samvel
    Avetisian, told after a government session that owners
    of pigs will receive 1005 drams (a little over $3) per
    each kg of the destroyed meat.
    He said the list of farmers whose pigs were
    affected by the disease will have to be verified yet
    by special task units that were set up to address the
    problems on local level.
    He said no farmer whose pigs were destroyed will be
    omitted. Overall 18,800 pigs were registered to have
    died or destroyed because of the disease.
    The African Swine Fever (ASF) slipped into
    Armenia's northerner regions from Georgia last summer
    and then spread to other areas of the country and then
    slipped into Nagorno-Karabakh killing thousands of
    animals there as well.
    Experts say the African Swine Fever is a viral
    transboundary animal disease that can neither be
    prevented medically nor can it be treated. There is no
    vaccine against the disease which causes high
    mortality ranging from 80 to 100 percent.
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