Operational support services in Westphalia-Lippe want to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the Operations Assistant arrives at the farm in cases of virus detection. It is not yet known if there are any suspected cases on farms in Westphalia-Lippe. But according to experts, the virus will not ignore the villagers.
Quarantined or infected farmers ask: are we eligible for household assistance and will we send a farm support service, such as a farm assistant?
About half of the entire territory of Germany is used for agriculture. About a million residents employed in this industry produce goods worth more than 50 billion euros per year.
The social security institution decides at the request of the insured whether they have the right to help the company or family and help with the application, but cannot decide, says Jörg Wennigmann, managing director of the board of trustees. As with all diseases, the same applies here: if there is a disability for medical reasons, the use of an assistant is allowed.
On the other hand, there is no right to prompt and domestic assistance in the case of simple quarantine (without sick leave) if a ban on contact is declared, but the farmer can continue to take care of his animals and perform work in the field and forest, according to the managing director. In addition, the family cannot demand domestic help to take care of children remaining at home due to school closures.
- In the municipality of Kleinkarsdorf, Dresdner Vorgebirgs Agrar AG is building the first dairy farm in Germany with a garden for a dairy farm, investing 6 million euros in this project, realizing this idea, the company expects to increase milk production, increase the life expectancy of cows and increase their litter.
- In recent years, slaughterhouses in Dresden, Chemnitz and Naunhof, Saxony (Germany) have closed, now the Altenburg slaughter, which will no longer accept pigs, is next in turn, pig farmers must take their animals to Weissenfels in Saxony-Anhalt.
- Beet growers in Germany are increasingly turning to organic farming, for example, in Lower Saxony, and more recently in Bavaria.