They decided to recognize pigsties and cowsheds as extremely high-risk objects

They will be monitored more diligently

The Ministry of Agriculture plans to assign all cowsheds, pigsties, poultry farms and other enterprises that house and breed farm animals the category of “high and extremely high risk.” Project The corresponding resolution of the Government of Russia is posted on the portal of draft regulatory legal documents.

Today, agricultural enterprises are divided into five “risk” categories. The risk may be extremely high, high, moderate, moderate or low. The work on categorizing livestock farms has not yet been completed; one or another status has been assigned to 37 thousand of them; less than 4 thousand institutions have been recognized as objects of high and extreme danger. According to the developers, this is wrong. According to them, in 2021, 355 foci of African swine fever, 401 foci of brucellosis in cattle, 37 foci of brucellosis in small cattle were identified in Russia, foci of contagious dermatitis nodosa, highly pathogenic avian influenza, leptospirosis, listeriosis, ornithosis, and smallpox were also identified. sheep and goats, foot and mouth disease and anthrax. Last year the data was also impressive; rabies was added to the list of identified diseases.

Some of these diseases are common to animals and humans, but even when this is not the case, the spread of diseases causes enormous harm. In connection with the elimination of the consequences of African swine fever, 370 thousand pigs were destroyed in 2021, the economic damage amounted to almost 2 million rubles. In 2022, 209 thousand pigs were destroyed, the damage was 2.3 million.

Recognition of agricultural enterprises as high-risk objects will lead to increased control over them: inspections will be carried out more often, more thoroughly, and they will be assessed according to a greater number of criteria.