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Farmers pay the price for OBP failures

inister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Land Reform Thoko Didiza recently responded in writing to various questions about efforts to improve Onderstepoort Biological Products' (OPB) services and address vaccine shortages. The DA's shadow minister of agriculture, rural development and land reform, Noko Masipa, posed the questions in Parliament. that Didiza's answers illustrated that farmers were paying the price for the neglect of infrastructure at OBP.

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