AgriMin Constantin announces bluetongue disease vaccine campaign in 2015

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Romania will carry out a bluetongue disease vaccine campaign in 2015, Agriculture Minister Daniel Constatin announced on Sunday at the public television TVR. He also mentioned short-term diplomatic efforts to convince foreign countries not to block imports from Romania.

'We have problems [with the bluetongue disease] throughout the country. It has hardly hit the animal farming right when we managed to increase the subsidies and support this sector. In 2014 we first succeeding in stopping the decline of the cattle population, which had continuously slumped, and this year it began to grow, ny 0.7 percent. The great problem was with sheep, because in September, right when the bluetongue disease hit, we should have exported one million sheep to Arab countries. We couldn't do it anymore. Next year, Romania will probably vaccine on national scale against this virus, and there will no longer be problems for some time. Right now, however, we have to regulate the export of livestock,' Constantin said.

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