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Botswana cattle lockdown tests farm credit as BCP demands zoning
Botswana's blanket foot-and-mouth lockdown keeps disease-free districts trading under the same ban as infected ones, and the BCP wants that reversed. Compliant farmers absorb the cost while better-capitalised buyers quietly consolidate breeding stock. The real damage may land on export certification if the state cannot show it distinguishes clean zones from dirty ones.
