Applicants that approached the Gauteng High Court including Sakeliga and Free State Agriculture have welcomed Monday’s ruling that will allow farmers, under guidelines, to privately procure Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccines and administer them to their livestock.
Applicants that approached the Gauteng High Court including Sakeliga and Free State Agriculture (FSA) have welcomed Monday’s ruling that will allow farmers, under guidelines, to privately procure Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccines and administer them to their livestock.
Sakeliga spokesperson Anton Meijer on Tuesday said that the Pretoria High Court has granted an order that FMD vaccines may be procured and administered privately, without state veterinary involvement.
“The Minister of Agriculture was also interdicted from interfering in private commercial relations of those who lawfully import FMD vaccines into South Africa.”
Meijer added that the order, in favour of Sakleiga, Southern African Agri Initiative (Saai), and FSA, confirms that owners and managers of cloven-hooved livestock may independently procure and administer lawfully obtained FMD vaccines.
