The Pig Producers of Ukraine Association and the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection have created a new interactive map of African swine fever (ASF) cases in Ukraine, which records all cases of the disease since 2012.
“With the help of the ASF map, pork producers will have constant access to updated statistics on outbreaks of this disease. They will be able to track the geography of the virus and navigate the epizootic situation in the industry,” the association said in a statement.
According to the interactive map, 38 cases of ASF were registered in Ukraine in 2023, of which 12 cases were 129 wild animals, 21 cases in farms (175 animals), three cases in the private sector on commercial farms or in farms (253 animals), and 11 infected facilities were also identified. During the year, 23 quarantine regimes were canceled.
At the same time, a year earlier, 10 outbreaks of ASF were recorded in Ukraine, including three on farms, two cases each in the wild and in the private sector, commercial farms, and farms. Infected facilities were detected three times.
In pre-war 2021, 16 outbreaks of ASF were recorded in Ukraine, including six in the private sector, commercial farms, farms, three cases in the wild and on farms. Infected facilities were detected four times.
An interactive map of ASF outbreaks in Ukraine is available at https://pigua.info/uk/site/disease.
The team of “LUN City” urban space research project has created an interactive map of service businesses that have autonomous power supply in order to make it easier for Ukrainians to find information about such facilities in conditions of forced power outages due to shelling of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure by Russian troops.
According to the press service of “LUN” on Friday, the map “Working during a power outage” is constantly updated, available on the website and in the app. On it you can check which establishments are able to work even during a blackout, and you can add there information about the work of a cafe, store, medical center, tire fitting shop or other service by filling out the appropriate questionnaire, after which the information will be entered into this database.
“From user experience, we see that today there is a huge demand not only for basic establishments with self-catering: supermarkets, gas stations, pharmacies, postal services, etc. – today there is also a huge demand for self-catering in cafes at home, where you can work and have lunch, co-working rooms, car washes, hair salons. It’s super convenient to have it all on one card. You went in, checked it out, and planned your day easier”, – commented on the launch of the project Anna Denisenko, its curator.
The “LUN City” noted that most of gas stations have their own generators and fully autonomously supply themselves with electricity, and on “Novaya Poshta” you can pay and receive a parcel with the help of mobile app.
Comfy and Foxtrot retailers also indicated the possibility of working autonomously in the map, continuing to update information about the work of their stores. According to the entered data, “Silpo” chain stores are also already equipped with generators at the main points, in the near future it is planned to expand this network.
autonomous power, INTERACTIVE MAP, LUN City, service establishments
The State Forest Resources Agency of Ukraine has launched a new pilot project – an interactive map with wood processing facilities, Head of the agency Andriy Zablotsky has said.
“We want to inform our citizens as much as possible about the legal places for processing wood, as well as identify sawmills that work illegally or use illegally logged wood,” he wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday.
The head of the State Forest Resources Agency said that the facility were put on the public map according to their geographical coordinate system, information from the electronic wood accounting system and the data provided by Zakarpattia, Sumy, Poltava, Kharkiv, Kirovohrad, Donetsk and Zhytomyr regional administrations.
“The project is a pilot one. Work is underway to fill the geoportal with information. Soon, a feedback form will be created through which users can provide clarification, information about unapplied objects or other informative materials related to wood processing,” Zablotsky said.
In addition, the State Forest Resources Agency is implementing a project named “Forest in a Smartphone”, which allows studying with the general list of logging tickets or checking the legality of logging on the agency’s website on an online map using a computer or a smartphone.
The website also has a service for checking the legality and origin of wood, auction and tender portals. There is an option to check the selling prices for wood, an electronic list of certificates of origin for timber and lumber. In addition, on the website of the State Forest Resources Agency one can follow the monitoring of domestic consumption of wood.
According to Zablotsky, the State Forest Agency Resources plans to transfer the majority of registers and services to a smartphone.
Mriya agroholding launches interactive map for beekeepers
Mriya agroholding has launched a first interactive map of bee plants in Ukraine, where it has fields with all bee plants of the agroholding. The press service reported that the map also indicates variety of plants, the projected period of blooming, information about scheduled spraying works and the required number of be families for good entomogamy and other information.
Director for Public Relations and Social Projects at Mriya Nonna Shmidik said that the agroholding actively supports the cooperative movement and the share of beekeeping cooperatives among those created by the agroholding is large. This tool would allow beekeepers to effectively organize their work, gather more honey and increase income.
“Beekeepers from six regions of Western Ukraine, where Mriya operates (Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Chernivtsi, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv and Rivne) using this tool will be able to access the relevant information on more than 60,000 hectares of bee plants grown by the agroholding , apply for and reserve seats for their apiaries in certain areas. In addition, users of the interactive map are provided with SMS-information about the blooming time and the application of crop protection agents,” the agroholding said.
