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Consequences for swine farm income of depopulation as a disease control measure.Marsh WE.
Swine depopulation likely to end today
Agri-Commodities
Written by Ramon Efren R. Lazaro / Correspondent
Thursday, 05 March 2009 20:21

PANDI, Bulacan—The depopulation of more than 6,000 swines contaminated by the Ebola Reston virus in a piggery farm in this town is expected to be completed by today.

This was the assessment of Dr. Roldrien Morales of the Bureau of Animal Industry, who stands as the ground commander of the depopulation team.

He noted the depopulation rate has been increasing each day from 442 on Sunday to 795 on Monday, 1,426 on Tuesday and 2,078 on Wednesday.

Members of the depopulating team told the BusinessMirror the operation yesterday morning that started at 8 a.m. till 11 a.m. has culled more than 300 heads, which translates to more than 5,000 heads depopulated since the operation begun.

The culling operation would hopefully end by Friday and the disinfection of the farm could begin either by Saturday or Sunday, Morales said.

Morales said as of late Wednesday, the team has used 554 sacks of charcoal and consumed 160 liters of kerosene per day, including the truckloads of firewood and rice hull.

The burning process involves several layers of fuel and animals in the ground pit.

Rice hull makes up the first layer, followed by firewood mixed with coal, then rice hull again, and the culled animals and coal are on top of these covered with rice hull, coal and firewood and is torched. When the pile starts to burn, a final layer of rice hull is placed on top. Morales said the procedure came from fire experts.


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