Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi has urged the State government to expedite steps to disburse adequate compensation to farmers in the district for massive culling of their pigs to contain the spread of African swine fever.
The Hindu had published a news article on the plight of the pig farmers in Wayanad on Saturday.
In a letter to Minister for Animal Husbandry, Dairy Development, and Milk Co-operatives J. Chinchu Rani, Mr. Gandhi said that in a region where the agrarian sector had been particularly hard hit by erratic weather and natural calamities, pig rearing had provided an additional source of income.
