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She highlights the August 21 edition of Farmer's Weekly. In the news section, there is a story on the country's economic indicators. In another story the magazine takes a look at South Africa's foot-and-mouth disease status. The country is still struggling to regain its foot-and-mouth disease-free status. This is due to the current outbreak in Limpopo where culling is still taking place of animals which tested positive for the disease and because of this situation it is still unclear when South Africa will regain its free status again from the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).  

Together with that, there is a story about a recent meeting that took place in Parliament with the portfolio committee of agriculture, about the Agricultural Research Council that still does not have the capacity to produce efficient foot-and-mouth disease vaccines. This still needs to be imported from Botswana. 

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