Authorities will today launch a mass vaccination campaign targeting about 55 000 cattle in Kgatleng East, to intensify efforts to contain Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in the district. …
Sunday Standard Chief Justice slams LSB over FMD legal fight Chief Justice Gaolapelwe Ketlogetswe has warned the Law Society of Botswana (LSB) against intervening in a high-profile legal dispute arising from the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) crisis. …
… GAZETTE REPORTER Botswana’s prolonged battle with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) has handed Namibia an estimated N$100 million, about P75 million, export boost after disease-related restrictions prevented Botswana from fully using its premium Norwegian beef quota. …
Sunday Standard Beef ban squeezes SMMEs Botswana’s small businesses in the catering and butchery sectors are coming under mounting pressure as the suspension of slaughtering cloven-hoofed animals following the Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak disrupts beef supply chains and …
Authorities in Kgatleng East have launched a mass vaccination campaign targeting about 55,000 cattle to contain a Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreak in the district. Vaccination teams will deploy across the eastern side of the A1 Road, with cattle undergoing three rounds of vaccinations 28 days apart, while movement controls and physical barriers are established to prevent the virus from spreading into disease-free regions.
Authorities in Kgatleng East have launched a mass vaccination campaign targeting about 55,000 cattle to contain a Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreak in the district. Vaccination teams will deploy across the eastern side of the A1 Road, with cattle undergoing three rounds of vaccinations 28 days apart, while movement controls and physical barriers are established to prevent the virus from spreading into disease-free regions.
Chief Justice Gaolapelwe Ketlogetswe dismissed an urgent application by the Law Society of Botswana seeking to rescind his decision to allow South African Senior Counsel Reginald Willis to appear on an ad hoc basis in litigation over the government's management of the Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreak.
Foot-and-mouth disease restrictions have prevented Botswana from fully using its premium Norwegian beef quota, forcing the country to surrender the allocation to Namibia, which gains an estimated N$100 million (about P75 million) export boost.
Botswana's suspension of slaughtering cloven-hoofed animals following a Foot-and-Mouth Disease outbreak is disrupting beef supply chains and raising operating costs for small, medium and micro enterprises in the catering and butchery sectors.