May 14 (Bloomberg) -- Japan plans to slaughter more than 80,000 livestock in the southern prefecture of Miyazaki as it seeks to contain an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.
A total of 73,653 pigs and 6,604 cows have been marked for destruction at 86 farms, the Miyazaki local government said in a statement yesterday.
Japan’s Farm Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu said the government plans to compensate farmers, the Nikkei newspaper reported.
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