Swine Fever: Serbia Secures 250,000 Liters of Disinfectant
Serbia's Agriculture Ministry says it has secured 250,000 liters of ready to use disinfectant against African swine fever and sheep and goat pox. Sabac gets 36,000 liters, Nis 10,000.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management has secured 250,000 liters of ready to use disinfectant solutions to fight African swine fever and sheep and goat pox across Serbia. The single largest share, 36,000 liters, has been delivered or is being prepared for delivery to the regional crisis center in Sabac.
The statement went out before 9 a.m. on August 1, 2026. The solutions were procured together with Sigma Crvenka, a domestic manufacturer, and they arrive premixed, so field teams apply them straight from the container instead of diluting on site.
The second largest consignment, 10,000 liters, went to the Veterinary Specialist Institute in Nis, which passes it on to southern Serbia:
- Bujanovac
- Presevo
- Trgoviste
- Bosilegrad
- Lebane
- Medvedja
- Kursumlija
- the city of Vranje
The remaining stock, more than 200,000 liters, has not been assigned in advance. It goes out according to field demand and the judgment of the veterinary service, which means the split shifts as the outbreak moves.
The same purchase covers two diseases. Beyond African swine fever, the solutions are used against sheep and goat pox, so the same liter can end up at a pig farm or a sheep holding depending on what the area keeps.
The ministry says the supplies are not reserved for confirmed outbreak zones alone:
The secured supplies are intended both for disinfection in infected and threatened areas and for preventive use at locations where the presence of African swine fever and sheep and goat pox has not been confirmed
That preventive share never shows up in the count of infected holdings, yet it comes out of the same budget line.
Why does Sabac get the most?
Because that is where the outbreak is densest. Figures given by Agriculture Minister Dragan Glamocic on July 30, 2026 put the virus in eight districts, 13 municipalities and 61 settlements, with roughly 830 infected farm holdings. The worst hit areas are Macva, Srem and part of Obrenovac, plus one confirmed case in the South Banat district.
Sabac is the seat of the Macva district and the closest logistics point to the largest cluster of infected yards, so the 36,000 liters follow the outbreak map rather than population. The 10,000 liters routed through Nis cover eight local governments, a far thinner spread of cases over a far wider area.
Who makes the solutions
Sigma Crvenka has done this for the state before. During the coronavirus pandemic the company donated around 2.7 million liters of disinfectant, more than ten times what the veterinary service is receiving now. The comparison sets the scale: an animal epidemic needs less chemistry but a much tighter delivery plan, because the targets are farmyard entrances, transport vehicles and access roads rather than public buildings.
Movement restrictions run alongside the spraying. Hundreds of wild boar have died in the Kozara hunting ground, and access to the highest risk areas of Klenak and Kupinovo has been limited. Wild boar remain the hardest part of the job, since none of the biosecurity rules that apply to registered holdings reach them.
Glamocic said on July 30 that the virus was still active and that containment would run for several more months. The number that will show whether 250,000 liters was enough is the count of newly infected holdings in August, because that figure measures the result rather than the effort.
