If you change a pig for a chicken, you will get money: the Government of the Tula region has introduced a new subsidy for livestock breeders 

Owners of personal subsidiary farms who have switched from pig breeding to alternative areas of animal husbandry will receive a new subsidy from the government of the Tula region in 2022. Details of the Tula news service were reported in the Ministry of Agriculture of the region.

According to the ministry, support will be provided in accordance with Resolution No. 519 dated August 23, 2021 “On Approval of the Procedure for Providing Subsidies from the Budget to Support the Livestock Industry.”

“Subsidies are provided <…> for the purchase of livestock of farm animals for the implementation in the Tula region of measures to switch personal subsidiary plots to alternative animal husbandry in order to prevent the introduction and spread of the African swine fever virus,” the document says.

The subsidies should cover about 80% of the actual costs incurred by the livestock breeder during the "transition". The decree states that the funds will be allocated on the condition that the owner of the personal subsidiary farm has submitted an application or request to the regional ministry.

Earlier, the chief sanitary DOCTOR of the Tula region, Alexander Lomovtsev, signed a decree under which agricultural workers must be revaccinated against covid-19 six months after the previous vaccination or previous illness.

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