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S SULAWESI FARMERS TO BE COMPENSATED FOR BIRD FLU LOSSES
Makassar, Nov 24, 2008 (Asia Pulse Data Source via COMTEX) --
The central government has allocated Rp1 billion in funds to compensate farmers in South Sulawesi whose poultry die of bird flu in 2009, a local animal husbandry official said.
"The funds will be used to compensate poultry breeders whose chickens die of bird flu in several districts and municipalities in South Sulawesi," Arifin Daud, a spokesman of South Sulawesi's animal husbandry office, said here on Monday.
Daud said poultry breeders who had lost animals by the disease would be paid Rp12,500 to Rp20,000 per chicken.
"We are going to survey the chicken mortality rates and conditions in every district and municipality to determine the amount of compensation each region will receive," Daud said.
He said the last time the government had provided compensation to poultry breeders for losses caused by bird flu was in 2006.
According to data collected by the South Sulawesi animal husbandry office, poultry production centers in the province which had been bearing the brunt of the bird flu epidemic since 2005 were the districts of Sidrap, Maros, Gowa, Wajo, Luwu, Bulukumba, Bone, Makassar, Pangkep and Barru.
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