{"id":64561,"date":"2025-03-04T18:24:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd"},"modified":"2025-03-30T16:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T16:41:14","slug":"elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd","title":{"rendered":"Elephant Population Growth Fuels FMD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Inadequate maintenance of cordon fences and destruction by the growing elephant population are some of the compounding factors resulting in the current unstable FMD situation in Botswana.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in Parliament last week on behalf of the Minister of Lands and Agriculture, Minister of Tourism and Environment, Mr Wynter Mmolotsi said other factors included inadequate vaccination coverage and non-compliance with movement controls and animal traceability requirement.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the daunting challenges, he said lands ministry was implementing several initiatives such as vaccination and quarantining, and commodity-based trade (CBT) where beef carcasses were subjected to a process that inactivate the virus.<\/p>\n<p>He said CBT enabled Ngamiland beef to be exported to markets including the Middle East. Furthermore, Mr Mmolotsi said the ministry embarked on a FMD official control programme that aimed to progressively eradicate the disease from Ngamiland and the Okavango district.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project is underpinned by implementation of a robust disease surveillance, animal traceability, risk-based vaccination and establishment of FMD free compartments,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mmolotsi said the World Organisation for Animal Health had endorsed Botswana\u2019s FMD official control program, which he said was a huge milestone achieved in spite insurmountable challenges.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry, he said also started a process to establish a Protection Zone in Ngamiland, which would contribute to the overall initiative by reducing FMD risk and consequently the number of cattle that needed to be vaccinated, and eventually establish FMD free compartments.<\/p>\n<p>For Senkobo disease and bont tick, he said the ministry would continue to work closely with farmers to implement basic controls such as regular dipping of livestock to control the diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis includes possible partnerships with communities and development partners to establish dip-tanks in strategic areas, being mindful of the acaricide resistance problem and sensitivity of the delta,\u201d said Mmolotsi.<\/p>\n<p>Okavango East MP, Mr Gabatsholwe Disho had asked the Minister of Lands and Agriculture to outline the plan for eradicating diseases such FMD, and also the tropical bont tick to improve agricultural production and livelihoods of Batswana.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Botswana<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Inadequate maintenance of cordon fences and destruction by the growing elephant population are some of the compounding factors resulting in the current unstable FMD situation in Botswana. Speaking in Parliament last week on behalf of the Minister of Lands and Agriculture, Minister of Tourism and Environment, Mr Wynter Mmolotsi said other factors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":64560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[234],"class_list":["post-64561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elephant Population Growth Fuels FMD - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Inadequate maintenance of cordon fences and destruction by the growing elephant population are some of the compoundin ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elephant Population Growth Fuels FMD\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Inadequate maintenance of cordon fences and destruction by the growing elephant population are some of the compoundin ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-03-04T18:24:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-03-30T16:41:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2025\/03\/sm_1741102515.831947.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1134\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Elephant Population Growth Fuels FMD\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-03-04T18:24:50+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-03-30T16:41:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd\"},\"wordCount\":348,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2025\/03\/sm_1741102515.831947.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"community\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/elephant-population-growth-fuels-fmd\",\"name\":\"Elephant Population Growth Fuels FMD - 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