{"id":43139,"date":"2026-08-19T13:54:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=43139"},"modified":"2026-08-19T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T11:55:05","slug":"foot-and-mouth-disease-is-under-control-sa-minister","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/foot-and-mouth-disease-is-under-control-sa-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Foot and mouth disease is under control: SA Minister\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Agriculture Minister Willie Aucamp says the spread of foot and mouth disease is under control because of a good supply of vaccines.<\/div>\n<div id=\"x_ms-outlook-mobile-signature\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>He was speaking at Agri Limpopo\u2019s congress in Modimolle.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Aucamp says 13.5 million vaccines have been imported and administered across the country.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>He also says 10 million more vaccines will arrive in the country by the end of the month.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Aucamp says, \u201cThere are 1 385 000 dairy cattle in the country, they have already received more that 1.5 million vaccines, every single dairy cattle animal have been vaccinated and they are in the process of vaccinating them for the second time, we are rolling this pack off upscale actually I believe that if we stand together and if the private sector, agricultural organisations and government take hands, we will bit this foot and mouth disease crisis no doubt.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">He says government will work with farmers to navigate the hot and dry weather conditions as the El Ni\u00f1o phenomenon is projected later this year and early next year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>Aucamp says the use of new technology can help farmers to survive the drought.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div>He says, \u201cFrom government\u2019s side we must assist them, we must help them to overcome these problems, some of the things that will make it easier for them, are the investments that were done to technology and in innovation, lets take for an example the seeds that we plant today, it is different from the seeds that we planted 10 \u00a0years ago, they are more drought resilient it can grow better in drought condition, so there are things that can make it easier for our farmers, our farmers know how to farm, we must from government side allow them to do that.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29532,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-43139","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Aucamp says 13.5 million vaccines have been imported and administered across the country.","published_date":"","news_description":"Aucamp says 13.5 million vaccines have been imported and administered across the country.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43140,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/43139\/revisions\/43140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=43139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}