AGRICULTURE NEWS - While farmers are forced by state veterinarians to slaughter chickens, pigs and cattle to prevent the spread of some diseases, government is compensating only a few of those producers.
The secretary of the Red Meat Producers’ Organisation, Corine Steyn, told Farmer’s Weekly that no cattle farmer had been compensated for animals that had to be culled when foot-and-mouth disease broke out in KwaZulu- Natal in November 2019.
“Believe it or not, although farmers were supposed to be compensated, no compensation was paid out,” Steyn said.
Read the full article here on the Caxton publication, Farmer's Weekly
