Valencia recognizes pig health and animal welfare efforts and will promote supporting strategies

Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries of Valencian community will promote strategy Pig support In collaboration with the field.

This was agreed upon at a conference held in Zaragoza on Wednesday, January 10, in which counsellors, Jose Luis AguirreTogether with their counterparts from Aragon, Castilla y León and Extremadura and representatives of the pork sector at the national level, they have addressed possible formulas to promote meat consumption and protect producers from “unjustified attacks without scientific basis to which they are “subjected.”

Aguirre maintains that the Valencian community has intensive livestock farming (pigs and poultry). “Key” in production. End of agriculture Valencian.

Further, he pointed out, however, that “intensive livestock farming has been demonized over the years, when in fact it is livestock farming that was to bear the cost in the most professional and exemplary manner. Adaptation to health regulationsEnvironmental and animal welfare, a true example for the European Union.”

In this sense he added that all this Attempt to modernize “It must be taken into account, and the administration should make things easier for them so that they are able to adapt to the most demanding regulations concerned. Health, animal and environmental welfare worldwide“

During the day, Aguirre explained that the incident “Listen to the statements

in different regions and try to implement best practices so that the field can move forward.

The counsellor, as well as his counterparts from other autonomous communities and some representatives of the pork sector and other livestock farmers present at the event, have advocated to start watching. Slurry Management as an opportunity and not as a problem.

Similarly, they assert that “we are unique” in competitiveness, having developed while other countries are declining as they are becoming. Many things in genetics and innovation.

On the other hand, the director of the National Association of Pig Cattle Producers, Miguel Angel Higuerapointed out that the sector has “a series of difficulties which make it require the support of the administration, Health risks due to the advance of African swine fever

If it reaches Spain it will be devastating and the concern over the wild boar population, which is the main spread of the disease in Europe.”

Four councilors agreed on this during the day Joint cooperation required Administration and the sector itself to develop strategies promoting Spanish pork.