By Akani Nkuna
Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen has projected that spending on Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) vaccines from two international suppliers will increase to more than R644.5 million as government moves to secure the national herd, protect farmers’ livelihoods and safeguard the country’s food security.
“With our first batches of vaccine procurement from Biogénesis Bagó and Dollvet, we have already invested R238.2 million in this War. As we move into the next critical phase, our projected expenditure on vaccines from our two international suppliers will increase to over R644.5 million,” Steenhuisen said on Tuesday.
“This excludes the R72 million spent last year on BVI vaccines from Botswana for 900 000 doses – of which the MPO bought 50 000 doses, RMIS 600 000 doses and the Limpopo, the Free State and Mpumalanga took the initiative to buy and use their own vaccine stocks to protect their local farmers.”
Steenhuisen was
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