Grant for ‘wolvenomheining’ much lower than expected: schapenboeren out on the street with their herds

Houthalen-Helchteren The promised 80 percent grants, which the schapenboeren in the North of Limburg would get for the surround of their meadows at the wolf, turns out to be less rosy than expected. Who landbouwnummer, receives subsidies from another game, which is about 15 percent of the amount the ends. “Time for action. We spend Friday our sheep to the meadows via the major roads, traffic or no traffic,” says sheep farmer Johan Schouteden.

Flemish minister of Agriculture Koen Van den Heuvel (CD&V) announced last week, is still proud to: "We will as a government resolution, up to 80 percent. We should be especially very pleased that the wolf to us is hit, that means that the management in Limburg, is particularly well. At the same time, wild and man in harmony can coexist. That silliness of the last few weeks could, of course, is not acceptable.”

But the promised eighty percent appears to be a lot of schapenboeren in the practice is different from turning. According to Johan Schouteden from Helchteren he and many colleagues from the region are disappointed. “That eighty percent only applies to the individuals," he says. “Anyone who landbouwnummer, so you cannot claim that eighty percent. We can, through the agricultural world evolution but you need to VLIF-conditions, and that necks us.”