In Summary<\/p>\n
Government has partially lifted a cattle quarantine in six out of seven sub- counties in Sembabule District where Foot and Mouth Disease has been contained.<\/p>\n
The sub-counties where the quarantine has been lifted include; Mateete, Lwebitakuli, Lwemiyaga, Mijwala and Sembabule Trading Centre.<\/p>\n
According to the Minister of State for Animal Industry, Ms Joy Kabatsi, the quarantine now remains enforced in only Lugusuulu Sub-county where cases are still being reported.<\/p>\n
The petition<\/strong> \u201cThe Cabinet took a decision to maintain the quarantine in only affected sub \u2013counties in the country and for Sembabule, it is Lugusuulu Sub-county where the disease has persisted,\u201d Minister Kabatsi said by telephone on Wednesday.<\/p>\n She said under this new arrangement, all people, vehicles and other goods moving out of the affected sub-county will be disinfected using Virukill disinfectant to avoid spread of the viral disease.<\/p>\n \u201c Loading of livestock on trucks will in the meantime be carried out at individual farms as we make arrangements to re-open cattle markets in the district,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n In 2015, government through the Ministry of Agriculture, declared a quarantine in the district and indefinitely closed cattle markets to avert the spread of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD).<\/p>\n According to Mr Jude Kiganda, the Sembabule District vice chairperson, the quarantine did not only affected farmers but also dwindled the district revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Summary In 2015, the government through the Ministry of Agriculture, declared a quarantine in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farming-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe decision has come days after Sembabule District Executive Committee (DEC) and the district security committee petitioned the commissioner for animal health and entomology to lift the quarantine in disease-free sub\u2013counties in the district.<\/p>\n