On Wednesday, 14 January, the administration of the Rosselkhoznadzor for the Krasnodar Krai and Adygea Republic issued a warning about the risk of the spread of ASF. The Agency draws the attention of the Kuban and Adyghe pig farmers on the need to comply with regulations to prevent the introduction and spread of the virus.

The reason for publishing warnings have become received by the Department of the results of the study of the fgbi "ARRIAH". In the analysis of samples of pathological material selected from dead pigs owned by LLC "agroresources-Voronezh" Petropavlovsk district of Voronezh region, was isolated genetic material of the causative agent of African swine fever.

Samples of the material in the order confirmation sent to GSI "Vniivvim" RAAS, Cover. Laboratory diagnosis is confirmed. According to the Rosselkhoznadzor information suspected outbreak occurred among animals kept in ZAO Orelselprom" in the Mtsensk district of Oryol oblast.

In this regard, all the specialized enterprises of the Krasnodar region and Adygea should exercise increased vigilance, stress in the regional office of Rosselkhoznadzor. Recall, outbreaks of ASF occurred in the Kuban region in 2008-2012 is estimated regional authorities, were destroyed 266 thousand pigs.

Now the industry has a moderate growth in October 2014 in the Kuban were 327,8 thousand heads, (+10,4% compared to the same period in 2013). According to the target program, developed on behalf of the Governor of Krasnodar region Alexander Tkachev, by 2020 the number of pigs will grow 5 times to 5 million, surpassing exporters in a number of consumers of grain Kuban.

Author: Anna Filatova