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Farmers need to sharpen up biosecurity

iosecurity has become like a buzzword, preached at many farmers’ days, in the agricultural media and during conversations at many meetings. Despite this, the livestock industry is failing dismally in controlling important diseases in the country, Dr Faffa Malan, who compiles the disease reports of the Ruminant.

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