Agriculture and intensive farming risk review

摘要

FOLLOWING on from fires involving animal products last month, the theme continues with intensive farming sheds, which have a link with the environment, as the by products of the process are unwelcome in many areas and certainly when muck spreading occurs. This sort of intensive farming involves the rearing of chickens, pigs and similar livestock in large sheds on farms.These are often timber built, and both the structure and straw bedding offer plenty of fuel for a fire. In addition, they are often large uncompartmented spaces where a fine is likely to develop rapidly into a major conflagration with, sadly, the loss of many lives among the animals.