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Speedy compensation for poultry farmers

Agriculture ministry agrees to pay farmers affected by bird flu virus 50 percent of compensation for damages within week

Farmers that were forced to cull poultry due to the bird flu virus will receive advances for the sum of 50 percent of the compensations for direct financial damages caused to them within one week, the veterinarian services ordered.

 

The speedy process will be also effective to fowl that has not been exterminated yet.

 

Director-General of the Agriculture Ministry Yossi Yishai, and Secretary-General of the Poultry Farmers' Association Yaakov Cohen have reached an understanding regarding the compensation system to farmers.

 

According to the agreement, farmers will receive the remainder of the compensations within 30 days, upon presenting the relevant papers to the Ministry. The sum of the compensation will be set in accordance with the criteria stipulated in regulations for the culling of fowl.

 

The Agriculture Ministry, the Egg and Poultry Board and the Poultry Farmers' Association have set up a team to evaluate the damages caused to growers as a result of the closure imposed on farms where birds were not killed. Compensations to farmers will be determined according to the team's decisions.

 

It has also been agreed that the representatives of chicken hatcheries and slaughterhouses will present before the Agriculture Ministry damages they suffered due to the virus' outbreak. All matters related to indirect damages will be addressed by a committee of ministries' director-generals that has been formed by the government.

 

Yaakov Cohen of the Poultry Farmer's Association said that this agreement with the Agriculture Ministry is the first step in compensating the farmers for the financial catastrophe they were faced with. According to Cohen, the quick transfer of funds will help growers whose world has collapsed to get back on their feet.

 


פרסום ראשון: 03.23.06, 09:39
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