Tag: FMD
FMD officially confirmed in Namibia’s Zambezi Region
The movement of all cloven-hoofed animals and their products within, into and out of the Zambezi Region has been banned after an...
FMD: China lifts ban of imported cloven hoofed animals
On the 23rd of July 2019, the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC) announced that, subsequent to...
The Animal Diseases Act: Foot-and-mouth disease
This article is part of a series of articles educating livestock owners and farmers about the importance and effect of the Animal...
War for FMD-free status continues
South Africa experienced a FMD outbreak in the high surveillance area of the FMD free zone in Limpopo on 7 January 2019...
Bek-en-klouseer is hopelik verby
Die bek-en-klouseer-uitbreking in die land is waarskynlik verby. Die Departement van Landbou, Bosbou en Vissery (DAFF) het ‘n aansoek aan die Wêrelddieregesondheidsorganisie...
Hot topics at #Nampo2019
The annual Nation in Conversation series hosted during the 2019 Nampo Harvest Day, highlighted the topics that the agricultural community is currently...
FMD remains under control as incubation periods lapse
It has been 14 weeks since the first signs of the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in the high surveillance area of South Africa’s FMD-free...
SA dairy exports doing well
Dairy imports for February were 4 110 tons at a cost of R172 million. South Africa imported mainly from France (28%) New Zealand (28%), Germany (13%), Poland (8%) and Ireland (4%). Dairy imports for this...
Bek-en-klouseer in Suid-Afrika: Hoe sake tans staan
Guillau du Toit, voorsitter van die Nasionale Wolkwekersvereniging (NWKV), het tydens die Internasionale Woltekstielorganisasie (IWTO) se jaarlikse kongres, wat van 9 tot 11 April...
Support SA cattle farmers for a thriving beef economy
The last few months have not been easy for the South African beef industry, which has been hard hit by a high maize price,...