Foot-and-mouth reaches first Palaiometocho sheep farm amid allegations of illegal animal transfers

Foot-and-mouth disease has spread to 104 farming units across Nicosia and Larnaca, with approximately 37,000 sheep and goats already culled and 21,000 pigs in the process of being destroyed, according to official figures presented to parliament’s Agriculture Committee on Wednesday. Agriculture Ministry Director General Andreas Grigoris announced the figures during the committee’s own-initiative examination of […]

By Angelos Nicolaou