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Livestock are also suffering hardship as the rainy season and the heat wave overlap.
Chickens and pigs, which are weak in the heat, are increasingly being killed by heatwaves, which is causing the prices of livestock products to fluctuate.
Reporter Lee Yong-shik covered the story.
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is a chicken farm in Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do.
He gasps incessantly with his mouth open, as if exhausted from the sweltering heat of a clogged rooster.
Water dripping from the water fountain is the lifeblood of chickens, and small droplets of water are sprayed like mist from the ceiling where the fan turns to cool the heat.
I tried to remove the heat with a ventilator and try to separate the chickens, but I couldn't prevent the death of about 400 chickens.
[Seung-geun Choi / Owner of the farm: Suddenly, the temperature rose by about 35 degrees.
I need to run the fan faster and with a higher speed...
.]
It's hard in the heat, even for a large pig, lying on the floor and not moving, breathing heavily.
Even though ice cubes are given several times a day for pigs that are weaker than other animals due to lack of sweat glands, 15 fattening pigs and piglets raised with feed died from the heatwave.
Pigs began to die from heatwaves at this farm from the end of last month.
Finishing pigs weighing more than 100 kg are the most affected.
As of the 7th, 112,000 livestock died due to the heat wave nationwide, with 10,700 chickens for meat and egg production, and 2,000 and 5,000 pigs and ducks respectively. I did.
[Kangbongjin/Pig Farm Owner: Even if the temperature is lowered by operating cooling or air conditioning facilities, the temperature does not fall below 30 degrees.]
Farmers are worried about the prospect that the momentum of the heat wave will not be easily broken, but the price of livestock is also high. It was shaking, and the price management was also in an emergency.