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Turkey’s meat crisis to hit peak with the FMD
Sunday, September 5, 2010
The Turkish livestock industry, recently on the agenda because of price hikes in meat imports, is now facing further difficulties in containing foot-and-mouth disease, or FMD.
FMD, a highly contagious disease, has been diagnosed in more than 700 areas all around Turkey since the beginning of the year. Due to this situation, livestock markets, where animals are bought and sold, are being closed one after another.
In the last three months, the livestock markets in nearly 40 areas have brought down their shutters because of FMD. The damage the disease is wreaking on the livestock sector can now be expressed in terms of millions of Turkish Liras.
According to data from Turkey’s Foot and Mouth Disease Institute, operating under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, FMD has already caused a 15 percent to 20 percent loss of efficiency in the dairy industry and a 10 percent loss in the meat industry, in addition to the deaths of animals.
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Even though the FMD has been seen in many parts of the country, the issue has returned to the agenda after Vural Görener, the founder of Banvit, a leading poultry company based in Bandırma in the northwestern province of Balıkesir, said, “There is not even one village from Edirne to Kars that does not have FMD.”
(Edit: Edirne is far West and Kars is far East, so this means all over Turkey).
The disease was discovered in Turkey some 50 to 60 years ago and the number of animals that have died is nearly 11,000.
In 2009, the disease was determined in 214 points, but this figure rose to 700 in the first eight months of this year. FMD is mostly seen in Central and Eastern Anatolia.
Turkey’s meat crisis to hit peak with the FMD
Sunday, September 5, 2010
The Turkish livestock industry, recently on the agenda because of price hikes in meat imports, is now facing further difficulties in containing foot-and-mouth disease, or FMD.
FMD, a highly contagious disease, has been diagnosed in more than 700 areas all around Turkey since the beginning of the year. Due to this situation, livestock markets, where animals are bought and sold, are being closed one after another.
In the last three months, the livestock markets in nearly 40 areas have brought down their shutters because of FMD. The damage the disease is wreaking on the livestock sector can now be expressed in terms of millions of Turkish Liras.
According to data from Turkey’s Foot and Mouth Disease Institute, operating under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, FMD has already caused a 15 percent to 20 percent loss of efficiency in the dairy industry and a 10 percent loss in the meat industry, in addition to the deaths of animals.
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Even though the FMD has been seen in many parts of the country, the issue has returned to the agenda after Vural Görener, the founder of Banvit, a leading poultry company based in Bandırma in the northwestern province of Balıkesir, said, “There is not even one village from Edirne to Kars that does not have FMD.”
(Edit: Edirne is far West and Kars is far East, so this means all over Turkey).
The disease was discovered in Turkey some 50 to 60 years ago and the number of animals that have died is nearly 11,000.
In 2009, the disease was determined in 214 points, but this figure rose to 700 in the first eight months of this year. FMD is mostly seen in Central and Eastern Anatolia.
