The Basque and Navarre governments are calling for extreme measures to clean up pig farms

In the face of the swine epidemic detected in Catalonia, the Basque and Navarre governments are calling for extreme caution. The first calls on farmers and distributors to strictly comply with the clean-up and control protocols, while the second calls for extreme biosafety measures and increased mountain surveillance.

In fact, the pig sector has some weight in the southern Basque Country, especially in Navarre, with a total of 1,200 pig farms, of which 1,080 are in the foral territory, with more than 827,000 cattle.

In the Basque Country, on the other hand, there are 120 farms with almost 30,000 pigs, of which 20,800 are in Álava, 5,800 in Gipuzkoa and 3,000 in Bizkaia.