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Namibia’s FMD outbreak hits hide trading

22/12/2015

A hide and meat trader in Namibia has told local press how the Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in the country has decimated revenues this year.   Before the outbreak, Eva Kuunasha salted the hides and then sold them to a tannery in Ondangwa, but that "but that has not been happening”.   The hides are worth more to the locals than the meat,...

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