FMD increases destitution

TONOTA: Since the culling of livestock to contain the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) last year, the Tonota Sub-district has seen an increase in cases of destitution.

Addressing the sub-district council on Tuesday, chairperson Peter Williams said that the depopulation of livestock left a majority of subsistence farmers in poverty and dependent on government assistance programmes.

In 2012, the government slaughtered cattle in Zone 6 following an outbreak of FMD and last year the same fate befell small stock farmers.

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