The Australian government has pledged A$5.2 million ($3,88 million) to help farmers to combat wild dogs attack which complicate the work of the industry, trying to recover from a severe drought that has reduced herds. Wild dogs are estimated to cost the agricultural sector of Australia in A$66 million each year, destroying livestock and passing of the disease, reported the Ministry of agriculture in a press statement. Australia is the third largest country for the production of sheep in the world, where the number of sheep is three times the number of residents. However, the sheep population has decreased in two times since the 1990s to 70 million animals due to dog attacks and the consolidation of the industry. Dogs are mainly crossed the pack of wild dogs and dingoes, Australian local dogs and the Dingo pack. Such groups are able to kill 40 sheep per night, and destroyed hundreds of thousands of sheep over the past few years. In some areas, wild dogs may be the biggest problem of the sheep industry, said the management of the industrial organization of Innovation in the field of wool. The Australian state of Queensland was the third largest state in production of sheep ten years ago, with 20 million animals, but was badly damaged by attack dogs, which in the state of only 5 million sheep currently, according to industry experts. One of the producers of wool in Queensland who have lost during the year 1 500 sheep, reported that he how to stop dogs, and devotes time to other business aspects. Queensland is now the most little state in production of sheep in New South Wales and Victoria are more than half the national herd, showed data of the consulting firm Neil Clark. Wild dogs are the motive for some farmers to stop farming business sheep, according to the representatives of the programme for the control of wild pests in Australia. The funds allocated for the fight against wild dogs are part of a national programme of pest control value of A$25.8 million The funds will help Finance the construction of fencing around farms that you do not miss the predators, the government has said. Other preventive measures include the spreading of poison baits, shooting and special protection of animals such as alpacas, llamas and donkeys. Exports of sheep meat and wool are projected to reach A$6.2 billion this season, said the Australian Bureau of economy and scientific research of agriculture and natural resources (ABARES), representing 10% of the national income from agriculture. Source - agro2b.ru