Stock breeders queue up at slaughterhouses

More and more cattle, sheep and goat breeders choose to take their stock to the slaughterhouse, as they lack fodder to feed them, Info-Prim Neo learned from the head of the Association of Goat and Sheep Farmers Pintilii Bulgaru. He says that some businessmen take advantage of the farmers’ situation and buy animals at no price, then sell the meat more expensively. Pintilii Bulgaru warns that in winter and spring the price of dairy products would rise because breeders lack feed. Radj Agaev, head of the Cattle Breeders Association, said that many breeders chose to sell or slaughter their animals. “People try to keep at least the milking cows, but they don’t have what to feed them. Cattle are bought at 25 lei per kilo”, said Radj Agaev. The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industry announced it would provide farmers with feed, but only at the beginning of winter. The budget tender for buying fodder is scheduled for November 23. The Government allocated 12 million lei for this tender and for distributing fodder to farmers affected by the drought. Minister of Agriculture Vasile Bumacov has previously stated that farmers have enough fodder until February, but the Ministry will try to supplement the feed reserves as soon as January.