FMD fence divides farmers’ market hopes

Source: The Namibian · 2026-11-04T15:00:00.000Z · Business

Farmers inside Namibia’s proposed foot-and-mouth disease containment zone may have to wait longer before they can sell their livestock to export markets again. A containment zone is an area set aside to stop FMD from spreading. In Namibia, the proposed zone in the ||Kharas region would separate infected farms from disease-free areas using fences. “It would mean that the parts south of that fence have a longer road to recovery. But it doesn’t mean you are not part of our world,” Livestock Producers’ Organisation (LPO) chairperson and vice chairperson of the ministerial FMD task force Jako van Wyk said at

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