Campaign vs. FMD intensified
LINGAYEN–The provincial government is out to protect its status as one among the few provinces in the entire country known to be free of the foot-and-mouth disease.
Provincial Board Member Danilo Uy, chairman on agriculture of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan, president of the Northern Luzon Hog Raisers Cooperative, composed of owners of 56 commercial farms, noted that the provincial government’s checkpoints in various entry points in the province have been reinforced.
Earlier reports that some traders attempted to bring in diseased livestock from Region III into Region alerted the provincial government.
The checkpoints that are regularly manned are located in Rosales; Bayambang, Mangatarem, Infanta and in Sison and San Fabian.
Pangasinan, La Union, Ilocos Sur and Ilocos Norte have been declared as FMD-free.
The Ilocos region attained its FMD-free status December 16 last year.
Ilocos region should preserve its FMD-free status if it wants to continue export its livestock to Metro Manila and other provinces, said Uy.
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