Scrambling to Mitigate Foot and Mouth Disease
The government delegates the task of mitigating the foot and mouth disease outbreak from the Agriculture Ministry to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. There are budgetary problems hindering the provision of vaccines.
Retno Sulistyowati
July 4, 2022
ZAINAL Abidin sent about 600 cattle from Tenau Port, Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, directly to North Jakarta’s Tanjung Priok Port. This was a first for him. Before, he always shipped the cows from Tenau to Tanjung Perak Port, Surabaya, East Java, from which they are transported by trucks to Jakarta. Zainal took the unusual route because he was worried that his cow would be infected with foot and mouth disease (FMD) that is spreading in East J
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