Small scale farmers in the Eastern Cape have registered their frustration about inaccessible foot and mouth disease FMD vaccines. The farmers say they have been crying for help from the Department of Agriculture but with no result.
Small scale farmers spokesperson, Bantubonke Makeleni, says the prioritisation of commercial farmers for vaccination undermines the small-scale farmers contribution in the rural economy.
We are being sidelined as small scale farmers and clearly our contribution have been forgotten.
