Forced cullings cost livestock producers millions
Sep 24, 2021
1 minute
– Susan Marais
While farmers are forced by state veterinarians to slaughter chickens, pigs and cattle to prevent the spread of some diseases, government is compensating only a few of those producers.
The secretary of the Red that no cattle farmer had been compensated for animals that had to be culled when foot-and-mouth disease broke out in KwaZulu-Natal in November 2019.
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