PALESTINIAN MEAT AND LIVESTOCK SECTOR HAMPERED BY SECURITY AND DISEASE
May 1st, 2013
THE MEAT and livestock sector in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories is suffering because of tough Israeli security restrictions, the development of Israeli settlements and a recent outbreak of bluetongue disease.Dr Abdellatif Mohammed, deputy general director of the Palestine Agricultural Relief Society, told globalmeatnews.com that livestock producers and herders had been suffered through the “closure of the majority of the grazing land” through “unjustified security [measures], settlement expansion in the West Bank, [and] nature reserve ...
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