#foot and mouth disease

The ongoing foot and mouth disease (FMD) outbreak is reshaping the debate around Cyprus’ agricultural model with Employers and Industrialists Federation (OEV) President Giorgos Pantelides on Tuesday warning that food ...

An internal meeting on foot and mouth disease will be held later on Tuesday afternoon, President Nikos Christodoulides announced, as he reiterated his readiness to meet livestock farmers. Speaking on ...

Strict adherence to European Union protocols is essential in addressing the threat of foot and mouth disease, President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday while signalling his willingness to meet livestock farmers ...

A 60-year-old cattle farmer from Yeri was admitted to intensive care on Saturday after suffering a heart attack shortly after his animal unit tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease. The incident ...

The compensation for animals culled amid the ongoing measures to combat the foot and mouth disease are set to ‘significantly increase’ following a meeting at the agriculture ministry, agricultural organisations ...

Livestock farmers plan to formally request a meeting with Nikos Christodoulides, their spokesperson Stella Petrou said on Friday, as tensions continue over the mass culling of animals linked to the ...

A total of eight fines totalling €45,000 have been issued to livestock farmers for breaching restrictions linked to foot and mouth disease, the veterinary services department said on Friday. It said ...

Livestock farmers threatened to shut down Larnaca airport on Thursday as protests escalated following an unsuccessful meeting with Agriculture Minister Maria Panayiotou, intensifying disruption at the Rizoelia roundabout. Lasting four ...

Agricultural organisations rejected the ongoing farmers’ protests over the foot-and-mouth outbreak on Thursday, as police warned that gatherings could increase transmission risks and involve individuals unrelated to the livestock sector. ...

Livestock farmers will be gathering on Thursday at Rizoelia roundabout in Larnaca to protest the ongoing mass culling of animals due to the foot and mouth outbreak, while the police ...

A third pig farm has tested positive for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), authorities said on Tuesday as the number of infected farming units rose to over a hundred. The disease has ...

Cyprus’ main agricultural organisations have called on President Nikos Christodoulides to raise the issue of relaxing EU protocols on animal culling at the upcoming European Council meeting. In a joint ...

Efforts to contain the further spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) are ongoing, in constant coordination with the European Commission and the north, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on Tuesday. “It ...

Poor biosafety practices regarding the movement of animals are behind the spread of foot-and-mouth disease into new areas, special scientific committee head Stavros Malas said on Monday. Attending a meeting ...

The total culling of animals on farms affected by foot and mouth disease is a legal obligation, the veterinary services department stressed on Sunday, while calling on all farmers to ...

Around half of Cyprus’ livestock farmers are not expected to rebuild their operations following the recent foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, according to the president of the Pancyprian pig farmers association, Petros ...

Livestock farmers staged a protest on Sunday amid growing anger over the handling of a surge in foot-and-mouth disease cases, with tensions briefly escalating as demonstrators blocked a main road ...

The total number of farms infected with foot and mouth disease in Cyprus has now risen to 101, the veterinary services department said on Saturday. It said that following the latest ...

A rare indigenous Cypriot sheep breed is at risk of being wiped out after antibodies for foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) were detected in a flock in Dromolaxia, raising fears that hundreds ...

Culling of pigs has begun at the first pig unit confirmed to be infected with foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in the Palaiometocho area, Veterinary Services spokeswoman Sotiria Georgiadou said on Friday, ...

Four thousand pigs will be culled following the first confirmed case of foot and mouth disease (FMD) at a pig unit with a capacity of 4,000 animals in the Palaiometocho area, ...

The first reported case of foot and mouth disease in a pig farm was reported in Paliometochos in the Nicosia district on Wednesday, bringing the total number of infected livestock ...

The situation in the UN-controlled buffer zone near the bicommunal village of Pyla remains tense, with an increased presence of peacekeeping forces and continued monitoring by authorities on the ground. ...

The number of livestock units in farming areas of Nicosia and Larnaca infected with foot and mouth disease (FMD) has risen to 75, the Veterinary Services said on Tuesday, amid a ...