{"id":694883,"date":"2026-01-14T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694883\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:24:14","slug":"agriculture-minister-to-brief-on-fmd-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/694883\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture Minister to brief on FMD status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PRETORIA &#8211; Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen will update on the status of foot and mouth disease.<\/p>\n<p>He will outline the strategy and timelines for vaccination to achieve a disease-free livestock industry.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>READ: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.enca.com\/business\/agriculture-minister-calls-compliance-fmd-control-measures\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Agriculture minister calls for compliance with FMD control measures<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The briefing comes as the disease continues to spread in various parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Mpumalanga, Gauteng, and the North West have been most affected.<\/p>\n<p>The government is expected to begin vaccinating animals next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PRETORIA &#8211; Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen will update on the status of foot and mouth disease. He will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3090],"tags":[51,1700,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-694883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115892261054612264","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}