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(Photo courtesy of the Department of Agriculture) M'LANG, North Cotabato - The town government here has alerted all its 37 barangays as three more villages were affected by the African swine fever (ASF), bringing to eight the current number of areas infected by the hog-associated disease. Arlyn Encarnacion, the municipal agriculturist, said Monday those added to the ASF red spot areas were Barangays Dugong, Langkong, and New Rizal. The former affected villages were New Lawaan, New Antique, Lika, Dalipe, Katipunan and Inas. She said depopulation is being conducted in all affected villages to contain the spread of the hog disease. "Culling is ongoing to contain infections within the perimeter while stiff monitoring is being observed within the 500-meter radius", she said. To date, she said the local government unit (LGU) has depopulated 2,044 hogs from 430 raisers. "Each affected hog raisers will be given an amortization depending on the classification of the swine the ....