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Authorities investigates meat price surge amid disease concerns

Concerned about the rise in the price of lamb and goat meet, the Ministry of Development has conducted two inspections at the wholesale meat market, on Wednesday and Thursday. 

Officials say the extent of a disease that has hit sheep and goats, and the number of diseased animals put down as a result, is fairly limited and should not lead to such price hikes.

Lessons from the plague

The plague sweeping through Greece's sheep and goats shows that some people were too hasty in replacing the capital lost in last year's disastrous floods.

Such haste is understandable, but when there's no plan and rules, the recovery will be precarious, as is the case now.

Nationwide ban on livestock movement after PPR outbreaks

In response to new cases of Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) detected outside Thessaly in central Greece, authorities have imposed a nationwide ban on the movement of goats and sheep for breeding, fattening and slaughter.

Over the weekend, a fresh outbreak was confirmed at a livestock unit in Mesino, within the Corinthia regional unit.

Red meat production up 12 percent

Türkiye's total red meat production increased by 12.3 percent in 2022 from the previous year to 2.2 million tons, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) has said.

Cattle meat production was 1.57 million tons, a 7.7 percent rise from 2021, while the increase in sheep meat production was 27 percent to 489,000 tons.

'Miracle' goat born from flames during forest fires

A baby goat that was born in massive flames in Turkey's southern Antalya province has been named "Miracle."

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Sercan Bayat returned to his farm hours after he was evacuated because of forest fires to find a baby goat among perished farm animals in the burned woodland in Manavgat district.

He said fires reached his village right after they began.

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