We are surrounded. Or, rather, the aviar flu has us surrounded. With positive in France and Portugal, the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food knows that it is a matter of time that the positives explode in Spain.
The mission is now to delay everything that can.
What does the ministry say? They don’t walk around: “In recent months, outbreaks of high pathogenicity avian influence in poultry, captive and wild (…) in the central and northern area of Europe.” And the situation has gone worse.
“In particular, in recent weeks there has been an increase in the number of cases detected (…) indicating a tendency to worsen up of the situation with the consequent increase in risk for Spain,” they continue. All that, “make it advisable to increase the level of risk nationwide and apply risk mitigation measures.”
What implies all this. In terms of measures, the ministry has launched a whole series of measures: things such as prohibiting the “breeding of ducks and geese with other species of poultry”, the “breeding of poultry out of the outdoor” or even, even, even “Give water to corral birds from water tanks to which wild birds can access.”
However, the standard opens the door to the use of birds or other devices that prevent the entry of wild birds.
An inconvenience … necessary.
Will we not be exaggerating? As Eloy Ureña, responsible for the Poultry Sector of the COAG, said In eldiario.es“The ministry’s decision can be an inconvenience for those who have layers, but it is worse to have a positive, because they die and because they suppose a relevant loss for exploitation.”
And, of course, we are not talking about a futures. And it is not because, right now, the world lives the greatest outbreak of this flu ever registered. That gives us examples for almost everything. In the US, without going any further, the uncontrollable virus sprouts They have caused a shortage of eggs As you don’t remember.
In California, without going any further, the dozen has reached 8.97 dollars: the average price of a dozen in the country in January 2002 was 1.93.
In Portugal, the sacrifices have already begun and the risk that the wick pledge in Spain is larger every day that passes.
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