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THIS WEEK: Museveni assures cattle keepers on ticks
Kampala,Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Museveni has calmed the anxieties of cattle keepers and encouraged them not to lose hope about the challenge of treating drug resistant ticks that have continuously posed a threat to their livestock in the country.
Museveni said that veterinary medicine experts have expended their expertise in an attempt to invent a mixture of acaricides for spraying cattle against ticks adding that the drug has so far tested positive; giving optimism that the combination will be effective.
He, however, observed that the cause of drug-resistant ticks which affect the health of cattle was due to poor sensitization by veterinary personnel on appropriate use of drugs for spraying against the ticks and also the farmers’ improper or haphazard way of using animal drugs when spraying against ticks at individual farms.
He was speaking at Kaaro High School in Kenshunga Sub-County, Kiruhuura District where he together with the First Lady Janet Museveni commissioned a girls’ dormitory.
