Junior Agriculture Minister Joyce Quin says the new sites will be very strictly controlled as Ministry of Agriculture officials oversee the disposal of 400,000 carcasses. Ministers hope the landfill plan could help to speed up the disposal of bodies after slaughter.
Figures show that the backlog of dead animals is growing.
Conservative leader William Hague said the Ministry of Agriculture was not coping with the scale of the outbreak. Northern Ireland's Agriculture Minister, Brid Rodgers, announced the new cull of animals connected to the latest case in Ardboe, County Tyrone, following emergency talks about the outbreak. The development came six weeks after Northern Ireland's only other outbreak of the disease at a farm in Meigh, South Armagh. Mrs Rodgers confirmed an emergency meeting of the Northern Ireland Executive would be held on Monday and officials from various departments were due to gather to draw up an agreed strategy on how to move forward in the coming days. The nationwide total number of cases rose to 1296, including the two Northern Ireland cases.