# The Department of Agriculture expects a 72-million-rand shipment of foot-and-mouth disease vaccines to arrive in South Africa by the second week of June. The deputy director-general for Agricultural Production, Biosecurity and Natural Resources Management, Dipepeneneng Serage, told Moneyweb the vaccines are being imported from Botswana due to South Africa’s limited domestic manufacturing capacity. The department has estimated the vaccine requirements to fight the disease for the 2025/2026 financial year at 1.2-billion-rand, with each dose expected to cost around one-hundred-rand.
R72-million worth of foot-and-mouth vaccine due in SA by mid-June