Almost 20 thousand pigs all livestock complex — in the coming days will be destroyed and disposed of on a pig farm company Idavang in Akmenė district due to the discovery of the virus on the farm. This is the second blow to the company in 2014 19 thousand pigs were killed on the pig farm enterprises in Ignalina district. The Ministry of agriculture of Lithuania today, August 9, announced the compensation to the pig breeders for the rejection of pig breeding, the correspondent of IA REGNUM. One pig will pay 100 euros and another 1.5 thousand euros for the purchase of other animals. However, while for these purposes generally allocated only 3 million euros.

As for Idavang, the experts now find out how the virus got to the farm, which adhere to the highest measures of biological safety, strictly observe all the security measures, but the virus still entered the economy.

Recall of ASF in Lithuania began to spread in 2013, and in 2014 in Lithuania, talking about full-fledged epidemic. In the end, the virus has spread from Lithuania to Latvia, Poland, and in the fall of 2017 for the first time were registered in the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation.