"The state's strategy since nodular dermatitis - also known as lumpy skin disease - appeared in France in June has been to kill affected herds and vaccinate all cattle within a 50-kilometre radius. Last week it then broadened inoculations to include up to one million head of cattle in the southwestern Nouvelle-Aquitaine and southeastern Occitanie regions. Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard on Monday urged farmers to have faith in the plan."
"Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard on Monday urged farmers to have faith in the plan. "We must rely on science," she said in the city of Toulouse, after a secretive tour in the surrounding Occitanie region. "I want to stand with the breeders in Occitanie," she added. "But I also want to protect the entirety of the French herd," she said, referring to 125,000 livestock breeders and 16 million head of cattle nationwide."
France plans mass culls of affected herds and a 50-kilometre-radius vaccination policy to contain nodular dermatitis, also called lumpy skin disease, which appeared in June. Inoculations were recently broadened to potentially cover up to one million cattle in Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Occitanie. Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard urged farmers to trust the science and the plan while saying she stands with breeders yet must protect the entire national herd of 125,000 livestock breeders and 16 million cattle. Farmers continue blockades and tractor convoys, and police used teargas when vets culled more than 200 cows after a single detected case.
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