{"id":70257,"date":"2018-10-12T08:34:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T06:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=70257"},"modified":"2018-10-12T08:34:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T06:34:54","slug":"government-lifts-slaughter-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/10\/12\/government-lifts-slaughter-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Government lifts slaughter ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Blessings Kang\u2019ombe, <\/em><\/strong><strong><em>Contributor: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_66847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66847\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cattle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-66847\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cattle-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cattle-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cattle-768x342.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/cattle.jpg 820w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-66847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AT RISK\u2014 Cattle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development has lifted the animal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/government-tightens-screws-on-foot-and-mouth-disease\/\">slaughter ban<\/a> imposed on Ntcheu and Dedza <a href=\"https:\/\/www.times.mw\/foot-and-mouth-spreads-to-dedza-ntcheu\/\">https:\/\/www.times.mw\/foot-and-mouth-spreads-to-dedza-ntcheu\/<\/a>districts after the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Director, Patrick Chikungwa, has confirmed the development, saying officials have \u201csuccessfully\u201d contained the outbreak in the two districts.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe ministry shall continue to monitor the situation on the ground,\u201d<\/em> Chikungwa said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is further cemented in a statement the Department of Animal Health and Livestock Development and Ntcheu District Commissioner Smart Gwedemula released on October 10.<\/p>\n<p>The statement indicates that, despite lifting the ban, the department would continue to employ measures aimed at preventing further outbreaks.<\/p>\n<p>In May this year, t h e government restricted movement of livestock after foot-and-mouth disease broke out in Ntcheu, Blantyre, Dedza and Neno districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Blessings Kang\u2019ombe, Contributor: The Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development has lifted the animal slaughter ban imposed on Ntcheu and Dedza https:\/\/www.times.mw\/foot-and-mouth-spreads-to-dedza-ntcheu\/districts after the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease. Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development Director, Patrick Chikungwa, has confirmed the development, saying officials have \u201csuccessfully\u201d contained the outbreak in the two districts. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70260,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70257\/revisions\/70260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}