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The livestock industry development plan also calls for placing greater responsibility on individual farmers to prevent outbreaks and penalizing those failing to follow animal protection rules, the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said.
Large corporate farms should get permits by 2012 with the system to be expanded to include all small-scale farms raising cattle, pigs, chicken and ducks by 2015. Farms engaged in animal breeding and chick hatching should also get permits next year regardless of the number of animals raised.
Currently, South Korea has an estimated 8,600 corporate farms, accounting for 4.4 percent of the livestock growers in the country. These farms raise more than 100 heads of cows, at least 2,000 pigs, and between 10,000 to 50,000 chickens and ducks. The number of small-scale farms tops 81,000.
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