Agriculture minister Thoko Didiza lifts ban on cattle movement
Beef industry welcomes the move and urges SA to vaccinate all herds to regain foot-and-mouth disease-free status
08 September 2022 - 11:14
UPDATED 08 September 2022 - 17:01
Agriculture, land reform & rural development minister Thoko Didiza announced on Thursday that she had lifted the 21-day ban on the countrywide movement of cattle, which was aimed at controlling the outbreak of the highly contagious foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the country.
The lifting of the ban comes after Bloomberg reported that Australia has banned imports of meat products for personal use from all countries with FMD, a step that the Australian government said was unprecedented, to keep the country free of the virus that affects cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, sheep and pigs...
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