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Farmers in Romania forced to sell livestock as drought kills animal feed
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21/08/2024
Temperatures in Romania hit over 40C in August, with the country experiencing several heat waves this summer.
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Faced with an ongoing drought, farmers in Romania are struggling to hang on to their
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cattle.
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They say feed is increasingly difficult to find and very expensive, forcing them to cut
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their losses and sell their animals to the slaughterhouses.
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Farmer Traian Ghertan says it costs him 1,000 euros a month to feed his livestock.
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The price of the animals compared to a year ago is 30-40% lower.
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On a 4,500 kg cow, 4,500 lei is not enough for a slaughterhouse.
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Last year it was 8,000-9,000 lei.
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Representatives of livestock breeders say farmers in all the counties impacted by the
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drought are facing the same situation.
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They say those who are using winter fodder to feed their animals now will have no choice
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but to slaughter them later this year.
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The impact, they say, will be felt for years to come.
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And small-scale farmers say the effects will be felt down the line by consumers as farms
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will be forced to compensate by increasing their prices.
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The Romanian Meat Cattle Breeders Association has sounded a warning, saying the number of
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cows has already dropped drastically from around 7 million to just over a million animals.
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Of those remaining, about one-third of them, 300,000, are dairy cows.
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But they say that once a farm is closed, it is extremely difficult for a farmer to
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get back into the business.
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They say they are expecting pressure on slaughterhouses to increase in the autumn.
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This is when many farmers, who had received government subsidies to buy their animals,
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will legally be allowed to sell them.
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With temperatures hitting over 40 degrees Celsius in August, experts warn this year's
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drought will result in well over 1.5 billion euros in losses in the agriculture sector.
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