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Limpopo agriculture department is making a big effort to tackle foot-and-mouth disease

Innocent Muleya, an animal health technician with the Limpopo Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, injects a cow with the vaccine to protect the animal against foot-and-mouth disease in the village of Maphophe close to the Kruger National Park in Limpopo province. All photos: Ihsaan Haffejee
Bovines bellow. Their collar bells ring. They crap carelessly. Some bulls try to hump cows. Men crack their whips to usher the animals along.
These cattle belong to small-scale farmers in the village of Maphophe, less than 20km from the Kruger National Park’s Punda Maria gate. They are getting their booster shots against foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

A drone photo shows how the system works. Small-scale farmers bring their herds to a kraal which starts…

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