Animal breeders in central Greece misplaced over 50,000 animals within the floods, whereas the surviving flocks face an pressing scarcity of animal feed, farmers stated in Thessaly.
In accordance with early estimates, practically 100,000 younger animals drowned within the floods of Thessaly and components of Central Greece, central to Greek agricultural and livestock financial system.
Tyrnavos
Yiannis Kokouras, mayor of Tyrnavos close to Larissa, informed the Praktoreio FM 104.9 radio of the Athens-Macedonian Information Company (ANA-MPA) that the livestock breeders within the space managed to save lots of 25,000 sheep which can be roaming in unpenned areas and are dealing with extreme points in feed.
“We managed to cease the (flood) waters at 5 meters in entrance of the primary homes in Ambelonas and Vryotopos,” he stated, however the city recognized for its cheese, wine, and tsipouro stays remoted since roads to main provide metropolis Larissa, within the north-northwest, are nonetheless inaccessible. The one highway main away from Tyrnavos is north, resulting in Elassona and Kozani and a great distance round to Larissa.
“Giant livestock items have been destroyed, and it’s sadly the time of productive course of – sheep are actually beginning to give beginning,” Kokouras stated.
“Due to this fact, they want instantly animal feed and areas to be transferred to. They’re now held inside parks and areas in Ambelonas. They don’t know the place to take them. Some livestock associations from different areas responded and despatched us [feed]and we try to purchase additionally. However 25,000 sheep are quite a bit – we’ve got as many sheep as we do folks, in our township,” he underlined, stressing that “animals that survived the floods are dealing with demise by hunger.”
As well as, winery homeowners can’t entry their land, numerous that are beneath water, and it’s now grape-collecting season, whereas the wastewater-processing plant went out of order because the water is 2 meters excessive.
Elassona
In equally key manufacturing middle Elassona, the storm and floods didn’t destroy every thing, Nationwide Affiliation of Livestock Breeders secretary common Nikos Palaskas informed ANA-MPA radio Praktoreio.
In comparison with the remainder of Thessaly, “which underwent whole destrcution, we barely survived,” he stated.
“We are actually threatened by infections from the useless animals. Sadly, the method of amassing them is taking a very long time. It is rather tough to method the livestock items nonetheless beneath water, and wherever animals have survived, they throw animal feed down by air,” the farming official stated.
The our bodies of the useless animals have reached the ocean at Platamonas, within the Macedonian coast, he added, “and it’s unknown what folks will face when the waters receded. Sadly, there’s no return” from the destruction, he stated. He added that the federal government measures for these affected by the acute climate are usually not sufficient.
“To purchase 1,000 animals, you want 250,000 euros. To construct a livestock unit to you want not less than 1 million euros. The help of 5,000-6,000 euros will not be sufficient even for per week’s animal feed. Whoever has animals that survived should face the winter, and those that misplaced them will substitute them with issue,” Palaskas added.
Supply: AMNA
