They declare quarantine north of Caesar because of foot-and-mouth disease

The Director General of the ICA welcomed the complaint of the farmers who sought to mitigate the economic impacts generated by this health crisis and announced that they would seek with the departmental government the presence in the region of bank, especially Agrarian bank.

It was also announced the completion of a security Council in the coming days, to study the measures to be applied to strengthen the controls on livestock movements, accompanied by sanitary measures to reduce the risk of infection in other municipalities of the south of Caesar.

Similarly, the boundaries will be reviewed with the departments of Santander, Norte de Santander and Sur de Bolívar, where there is also a clear link. illegal mobilization of cattle from Venezuela.

In the face of the health crisis, the AIT planned a second cycle of vaccination against FMD until December and would also vaccinate pigs, because it is in these animals that the presence of foot-and-mouth disease was detected, facilitated by the commercialization of FMD. this meat brought from La Guajira, Venezuela, on foot or in the canal.

The director general of the ICA was accompanied by the section director, Rafael Murgas, as well as the director of epidemiology, Alfonso Araujo Baute, secretary of agriculture of Cesar, the mayor of Valledupar and the Governor, Francisco Ovalle Angarita, who chaired the session.