) The Portfolio Committee on Agriculture today received an update from the Department of Agriculture on the vaccination of cattle against foot and mouth disease (FMD), ...
Efforts are being made by the government to contain the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak and minimise the impact on the farmers themselves and the supply chain, deputy government spokesman Yiannis Antoniou said on Tuesday.
Senior officer of the Veterinary Services Soteria Georgiades said the experts would discuss the situation on site and on paper, and help take the necessary decisions ... “This process takes a few days ... The damage, she added, has not yet been calculated.
Farmers in Cyprus have expressed grave concern over the foot-and-mouth outbreak, which they said could seriously affect the sector and subsequently the production of halloumi ... ....
Cyprus put a special national action plan into place on Tuesday and set up a 24-hour crisis management centre to fully coordinate efforts to contain the foot-and-mouth outbreak, which the agriculture ministry said has so far impacted 14,000 animals.
The assurances followed direct consultations between the veterinary services director, ChristodoulosPipis, and his counterparts in the three countries ... Halloumi, however, is explicitly excluded from the measures ... ....
MPs described the livestock sector as facing “its gravest threat in living memory”, as they, farmers and officials clashed during a heated session of the House agriculture committee on Tuesday over the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.