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The Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs has classified yet another national disaster in South Africa, marking the fourth such call in as many months, and the second in February.
South Africa’s first locally-produced foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines in 21 years were formally handed over at the Onderstepoort Veterinary Research facility of the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) on Friday. The initial batch of 12 900 doses – produced at pilot scale using modern bioreactor technology – will be distributed across six provinces, with the Eastern…
Annual consumer price inflation eased in November, beating economist expectations—but rising meat prices are not slowing down.
As South Africa works to contain and treat various outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease in the country, the Red Meat Industry Services body has reported that another disease, Rift Valley Fever, has been diagnosed in sheep.