In 2025, the Ministry of Rural Development, Livestock, Fisheries and Food will have a budget of 193.2 million euros to face the wildlife damage to livestock herd. This implies that the accounts increase by 9% compared to last year, also increasing the allocation for animal health.
The game to alleviate the wolf attacks has increased by 1.5 million euroscompared to last year and it is recorded another million for payment for environmental services. In addition, the accounts include the future update of the Wolf Management Plan and the drafting of a new Hunting Law, which has not yet begun but which will be attempted in this legislature.
ANIMAL HEALTH
Regarding animal health, highlights the 145% increase in the allocation for the purchase of pharmaceutical products and medical supplieswhich rises to 491,755 euros. In addition, the Government is already working on the third aid decree to cover the costs of the Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHE) that the cattle suffer, which will be released “in the first months” of 2025 and will cover all the costs of treatments, purchases and, as a novelty, also the application of vaccines.
There is an initial allocation of 347,000 euros to combat Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease
Cantabria already confirms a total of 2,385 affected since the beginning of the EHE outbreak and 414 dead animals and the outbreak affects livestock farms that are spread throughout practically the entire regional geography.
In this way, for the EHE there is an amount of 347,000 euros that can be expanded, as highlighted this Friday by the counselor of the area, María Jesús Susinos, in the presentation of her department’s budget, which has assured that “reflects the main demands and needs” of the primary sectorwith whom he works “maintaining a constant dialogue.”
From the accounts, he has highlighted general lines such as the commitment to modernization of agricultural holdings with aid that grows from 3 to 6 million euros, for generational change and the incorporation of new professionalsor by the boosting the fishing sector and the product transformation.
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