#foot and mouth disease

Every day, Sotiris Kadis still drives out to his farm. He unlocks the gates, walks through the yard and sits for a while among the empty pens where hundreds of ...

Farmers are to confront the agriculture ministry on Monday after a cabinet decision to allocate an additional 3.5 million cubic metres of water for irrigation failed to ease concerns over shortages. ...

No positive cases of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) have been detected during ongoing testing in the restriction zones, particularly around Pachna, while vaccinations are set to resume next week, members of ...

A total of 121 livestock units have now been affected by foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), following the confirmation of a new case announced on Wednesday. Second-dose vaccination coverage currently stands at 84 per ...

A livestock unit within the infected zone in Mammari has tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease, the Veterinary Services announced on Wednesday evening. According to the authorities, the affected holding is ...

The state is continuing “to find loopholes” to avoid compensation payments for foot and mouth (FMD) affected livestock units, the Voice for Livestock Breeders association claimed on Wednesday. “It’s ...

No new cases of foot and mouth disease (FMD) have been detected so far, veterinary association chairman Demetris Epaminondas said on Tuesday. “So far, we haven’t had any positive ...

Almost all pending culling of animals from farms on which foot and mouth disease was detected has been completed, the agriculture ministry said on Saturday. It said that around 6,650 animals ...

The administrative court has rejected a request to suspend compulsory culling of livestock in Dromolaxia, linked to foot-and-mouth disease, ruling that “public interest prevails over the applicant’s positions”. The ...

Eight samples taken on Thursday as part of efforts to contain the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak returned negative results, while the remaining animal culls are expected to be completed by the ...

Animal culling aimed at containing the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease is continuing as planned, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Thursday, while the cabinet has approved significantly tougher penalties for ...

The culling of about 6,000 animals affected by foot-and-mouth disease is still pending Dimitris Epaminondas, president of the Pancyprian Veterinary Association said on Wednesday. He added that the second phase of ...

Head of the Voice of Livestock Breeders association Neophytos Neophytou said on Wednesday he would not be cowed after he reported on Tuesday night he was threatened by a man ...

Farmers have agreed to accept the culling of livestock on farms where foot and mouth disease has been detected, Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou said on Tuesday. She announced the “immediate ...

The enormous economic activity of some livestock breeders with those in the north was one of the reasons that led to the foot and mouth disease crisis, head of the ...

President Nikos Christodoulides will on Tuesday holdtwo consecutive meetings on the current developments surrounding the foot and mouth (FMD) disease, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Saturday. During the first ...

A livestock farmer who said he lost 2,300 sheep and goats to compulsory culling measures told protesters outside the presidential palace on Friday that “the only thing left for us is ...

Excavators returned overnight on Thursday to excavate pits for the burial of culled animals in close proximity to residential homes, Kokkinotrimithia community leader Christakis Meleties told the Cyprus Mail on ...

Farmers’ representatives will meet President Nikos Christodoulides on Tuesday after agreeing to his proposal for a meeting, bringing to an end seven hours of protests in Nicosia. Representatives of the ...

Livestock farmers are prepared to march on the presidential palace on Friday as frustration grows over the government’s handling of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. The farmers demand an immediate ...

Three new cases of foot-and-mouth disease have been identified at farms in the Nicosia district, authorities confirmed on Thursday, with the total number of infected units across Cyprus rises to ...

Complaints have been raised by residents in Larnaca over the burial of livestock culled as part of efforts to contain foot and mouth disease, with concerns focusing on the handling ...

Livestock farmers will gather before the presidential palace on Friday to protest the management of the foot and mouth disease and demand a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides, the newly ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Wednesday that the veterinary services had deemed a second round of tests for foot and mouth (FMD) unnecessary, calling on all parties to cooperate in ...