On the possibility of using army to shooting of wild boars has requested representatives of the Union of pork producers during the summit held this week a meeting with officials of the Ministry of agriculture.

Don't weaken the grip of the ASF makes the Polish authorities to regularly examine the possibility of using "unconventional" approaches. For example, a former Minister of agriculture Krzysztof Yurgel quite seriously thought about building a fence along the Eastern border of the country, which would have to contain the "onslaught" of wild boars from the East. Forgot about the idea, along with his resignation.

His successor, Jan Krzysztof Ardanowski considered, most importantly the destruction of wild boars. "Shoot boars need constantly, then we are not talking about a single stock. But the contaminated areas need to destroy almost zero." - assured the Minister. This logic was born the action on the large-scale hunting in January 2019, which led to unprecedented protests in defense of the wild boars throughout the country and numerous blockades of hunting.

The idea of the indiscriminate shooting had recently been criticized by the expert of the International epizootic Bureau the He Pasakom. The expert believesthat the desire to completely destroy the boars impractical and limit the population should only in the areas surrounding the foci of ASF.

Calls to bring military to total "clean-up" we hear in Poland from 2016, the year when the Ministry of defence in fear of the ASF addressed the farmers. In 2017 the military experts were involved in combing the forest in search of dead animals, but their involvement in the shooting of Ministry of agriculture and decided not to. A year ago, the authorities planned with the help of the army to destroy up to 90% of wild boars in two months, but it remained only on paper.