Republic of South Africa: The Parliament 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), following an outbreak across the country. The committee heard that the department is currently distributing a million vaccine doses to outbreak areas in the ...

Henry Carlos from Kenya. Photo: Louise Mouton. Henry Carlos, the appointed Eastern Africa Representative for Karoo Livestock Export, attended the recent International Junior Boerbok course on the farm Chandelier, outside Oudtshoorn. The appointed Eastern Africa Representative for Karoo Livestock Export, Henry Carlos attended the recent International Junior Boerbok course on the farm Chandelier, outside Oudtshoorn. ...

The President of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Alhaji Baba Othman-Ngelzarma, has said that the creation of the Ministry of Livestock Development will unlock the trillion-naira livestock economy. Othman-Ngelzarma, who made the submission on Tuesday, July 9, 2024, while commending President Bola Tinubu for the creation of the ministry, said that ...

By Jeffrey Moyo Mberengwa — In 2007 as inflation walloped the Zimbabwean currency, rendering it valueless, then 54-year-old Langton Musaigwa of Mataruse village west of Zimbabwe in Mberengwa district switched to cattle as his currency. He wasn’t alone; scores of other villagers in his locality followed suit. In no time, cattle became a new currency ...