Garut Regency Government Gives Assistance For Less Able Farmers Can Be Affected By Headaches And Nails

Head of the Fisheries and Livestock Office of Garut Regency Sofyan Yani (right) handed over spiritual assistance to people whose livestock died due to PMK/VIA BETWEEN

GARUT - The Regional Secretary of the Garut Regency Government, Nurdin Yana, confirmed that all livestock that died due to contracting mouth and nails (PMK) received money assistance from local and central governments. This assistance is a form of government attention so that the livestock business continues. "Honestly, we are trying to touch our friends, as well as how our scenario is in the framework of carrying out a form of treatment to the community, so we can localize this PMK and then we can control it," said Nurdin Yana after the Coordination and Evaluation Meeting. PMK Control and Management in Harmoni, Garut, Antara, Tuesday, September 20. Since the beginning of the outbreak, the Garut Regency Government PMK has immediately moved to take preventive steps, including forming a PMK Handling Task Force team involving a number of institutions. Efforts made by the Garut Regency Government, he said, were to provide spiritual assistance to farmers whose livestock types of cows and goats and sheep died due to contracting the PMK. "This assistance is indeed an underprivileged community that is not for entrepreneurs," he said. In the first stage, Rp. 672 million has been distributed for 174 types of cows, goats and sheep that died due to PMK. Breeders who received the assistance were different. For adult cattle, they received assistance of Rp. 5 million, children's age cows received Rp. 3 million, and sheep or goats received assistance of Rp. 1 million. "We have an adult cow with a range of Rp. 5 million, then a child with a age of Rp. 3 million and for sheep Rp. 1 million, a total of 174," he said. He conveyed that the assistance would continue, whose budget allocation was not by the Garut Regency Government, but received attention from the central government. The Garut Regency Government, he said, is currently re-recording the livestock belonging to the community who died due to PMK to get assistance from the central government. "So today, thank God, the ministry will also now give appreciation to people whose livestock are affected by PMK," he said. Head of the Fisheries and Livestock Office of Garut Regency, Sofyan Yani, added that the central government through the Ministry of Agriculture is ready to allocate compensation funds in the amount of Rp. 10 million per head for livestock that die due to PMK. "From the center, it was proposed that 184 individuals could be compensated for Rp. 10 million per head," he said. He conveyed that the PMK case is still being watched out for. The staff continues to carry out inspections and PMK vaccinations for cows with 12,500 doses prepared for the first dose and then the second dose. "This vaccination is not yet 100 percent because it takes time, because the location, the location that is far away is we are only around 60 percent," he said.