pig-breeding

Bulgaria has stepped up measures to prevent the spread of deadly African swine fever and protect the country's 600-million lev ($344 million) pig-breeding industry, the agriculture minister said on Wednesday.

"If these studies are successful and the public are accepting of this technology, we would then be looking to work with pig-breeding companies to integrate these gene edits into commercial breeding stocks."

The Bulgarian state will the first time allot funds to aid chicken- and pig-breeding, informed Bulgarian Deputy Agriculture Minister Tsvetan Dimitrov.

The problem began last February when the Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science discontinued the pig-breeding program of Dr.

That company had risen from the ashes of his family pig-breeding business, which collapsed in 1998 owing pounds 10million.

A COP with a grudge against his pig-breeding neighbour set a trap to catch him drink-driving, a court heard yesterday.