"
Hundreds of thousands
" of ducks will still be slaughtered, after the extension of the slaughterings announced Thursday by the government, predicted Friday January 8 the Minister of Agriculture, Julien Denormandie, invoking the need "
to accelerate in the race against the clock
”against a“
highly pathogenic
”avian influenza virus.
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Since December, "
almost 400,000 ducks have been slaughtered in the Landes department (...) it will still be hundreds of thousands, it is a certainty
", declared the minister on
France Bleu Gascogne
, a few hours before a visit to the affected breeders, in this department which is the leading producer of fatty palmipeds.
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