Bulgaria wants to build a fence along Turkish border

The Bulgarian Government will build a fence along the border with Turkey, after a second outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) since January has threatened local farmers with devastation.

The decision was taken on March 30 2011.

Hundreds of farmers in the southeast of Bulgaria, an area close to Turkey and recently ravaged by repeated outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, have vowed to defend their animals, saying they would rather be killed first than have their animals destroyed after another outbreak of FMD struck last week.

This time the Bulgarian Government decision reportedly is a “firm one” having admitted that “it was taken too late”.