Farmers call for FMD measures to be imposed in north

As mass culling continues to address the foot and mouth disease outbreak in Cyprus, agricultural organisations have urged for the same measures to be imposed in the north as well, where the first incidences on the island were reported in December 2025.

“If this does not happen, we are all in a minefield,” chairman of the sheep and goat herders’ group of producers Soteris Kadis told the Cyprus News Agency.

“Since the EU will not accept derogations on our side, it must impose the same measures in the occupied areas...