This was reported to the State Service for Food Safety and Consumer Protection.
As noted, since 2012 in epizootic foci, more than 129 thousand were seized and destroyed. Pigs.
At the same time in the past year because of ASF destroyed 51.9 thousand. Of animals.
But since this year, 77 outbreaks of the African plague have been registered, compared to 91 cases for the entire 2016 year.
By the way, the most cases of the disease were recorded in Poltava (30), Odessa (29), Chernigov (27), Nikolaev (24) and Kharkiv (15) regions.
Recall, as reported by the wound "URA-Inform", the maximum reduction in the number of livestock was recorded in the Kharkiv region - 33 percent, and in Mykolayiv oblast - 21 percent - that is, up to 92,000 head.