BEIJING: Farmers in China are being offered cash to quit breeding exotic animals, as pressure grows to crack down on the illegal wildlife trade ...
Two central provinces have outlined details of a buyout programme to help farmers transition to alternative livelihoods.
A civet cat – the animal believed to have carried severe acute respiratory syndrome to humans in another coronavirus outbreak nearly two decades ago – is worth 600 yuan. Both Jiangxi and Hunan border Hubei, the province where the coronavirus first emerged in December last year.
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