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FILE | Inspector checks cattle for Foot and Mouth disease.
The Southern Africa Agriculture Initiative (SAAI) has rejected President Cyril Ramaphosa’s plan to centralise the national vaccination campaign and vaccine procurement of foot and mouth disease within the state.
The farming network organisation has welcomed Ramaphosa’s announcement declaring foot and mouth disease a national disaster.
However, it says the Agriculture Department does not have the capacity to manage the epidemic through central control.
The organisation’s executive board chairperson Dr Theo de Jager says the President is wrong.
“The President has thoroughly wronged when he believes that only by centralised procurement we can rollout the national blanket vaccine strategy especially when he compares it with our experience during the Covid pandemic. Because every farmer remembers there disastrous centralization of that process.”
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