{"id":222729,"date":"2026-02-04T00:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-beef-producers-union-rallies-farmers-to-protect-national-herd\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T00:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:07:04","slug":"botswana-beef-producers-union-rallies-farmers-to-protect-national-herd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-beef-producers-union-rallies-farmers-to-protect-national-herd\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Beef Producers Union Rallies Farmers to Protect National Herd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Ghanzi \u2014 The Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in South Africa and the suspected cases in Botswana is a wake-up call for farmers to harness the transformative power of collaboration in order to strengthen their operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The remarks were made by Botswana National Beef Producers Union (BNBPU) chairperson, Mr Mpaphi Phumaphi during a Saturday meeting attended by the community and members of farmers&#8217; associations in Ghanzi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Mr Phumaphi said it was worth noting that it had been a common&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602030025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanzi \u2014 The Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) outbreak in South Africa and the suspected cases in Botswana is a wake-up call for farmers to harness the transformative power of collaboration in order to strengthen their operations. The remarks were made by Botswana National Beef Producers Union (BNBPU) chairperson, Mr Mpaphi Phumaphi during a Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222730,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,11094,4718,2462,3030,11555,6687,257,8657,6202,11878,254,6156],"class_list":["post-222729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beef","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-farmers","tag-herd","tag-national","tag-news","tag-producers","tag-protect","tag-rallies","tag-south-africa-today","tag-union"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}