FMD increases destitution
Thursday, March 06, 2014
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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