Roughly translated by TWIN Observer
MALMÖ / TT
Despite reported wolf attacks it is likely that financial support will be removed for the sheep owner to put up predator fence next year. These costs are SEK40 per running meter, the aid being paid by the provincial government.
“We have received information from the Department of Commerce that there is no funding for the next year. But no decision has been made,” says Niclas Purfürst, head of the rural department of the Agriculture Department said.
The government is developing a rural development program for 2014-2020 and the support can come back later in the period.
In Skåne, where a wolf destroyed many sheep, it is some 50 sheep owners who for years sought fence support, reports SVT Sydnytt.
“We must take the full brunt of the predator policy,” says Magnus Jonsson, chairman of Skåne sheep interests to Sydnytt.