Mad cow disease cost Japan 2.76 billion US dollars
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Last Update: 2002-04-11
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Introduction: since the outbreak of mad cow disease last year, Japan has suffered economic losses of at least 365 billion yen, or 2.76 billion US dollars, and the Japanese agriculture and food industry has been greatly hit, the Ministry of agriculture, forestry and Fisheries said Friday Since the first detection of BSE in September last year, Japan's agricultural revenue has declined by about 131 billion yen compared with the same period last year, the sales of meat products have declined by 160 billion yen, the sales of Korean barbecue shops have decreased by 70 billion to 90 billion yen, and the total losses caused by BSE in the whole industry have reached 365 billion to 381 billion yen, an official from the Ministry of agriculture and water said To compensate for the loss of cattle farmers, the Japanese government has spent 100 billion Japanese In the next fiscal year to March next year, the Ministry plans to spend another 206.4 billion yen on mad cow disease Of these, 178.5 billion yen will be used to compensate farmers and the food industry, and 23 billion yen will be used to destroy meat and bone meal feeds suspected of causing mad cow disease (author:) share to feed Weibo share to:
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