Kazakhstan has restricted the import of goods from Saratov and Orenburg regions of Russia and tightened control over the movement of controlled goods at the border due to the outbreak of African swine fever in the village Kirsanovka of Orenburg region, RIA Novosti reported citing the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan.
As explained by the Ministry of Agriculture on December 9, the African swine fever was registered in the farming village of Kirsanovka in Orenburg region. The village is quarantined, 268 pigs destroyed.
"Today were introduced the restrictions on the importation of all types of controlled goods into the Republic of Kazakhstan from the Saratov and Orenburg regions of the Russian Federation", said the agency.
The possible ways of smuggling of goods from the Russian Federation and the migration of wild boars are taken under special control.
