Animal Production

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SUMMARY

Cattle are required to be branded on the left neck area and tagged on the ears. Animal trophies are also required to be registered for easy traceability.

The manufacturing, production and use of animal feed is regulated under the Fertilizers, Farm Feeds and Remedies Act and Regulations, as well as under the National Biotechnology Authority Act and Regulations. It is illegal to sell farm feed that has altered composition in terms of the Act. There are provisions regulating the labelling of containers that are used to package farm feed. All packaging of farm feed must be sold with labels marked in English or in the vernacular language in a durable and legible manner. Some of the information that the labels should include are the brand name, various indications as listed in the Second Schedule and the proportions of nutrients in the bag. It is also made mandatory to include necessary warning in the labelling of ‘medicated feed’, i.e. feed that has ‘urea, biuret, antibiotic, drugs or hormones’. Registration of stock feed manufacturing plant and stock feed is required. The licence for stock feed is US$150, and US$200 for a stock feed manufacturing plant. The same applies for exporting or importing animal feeds; one would need a permit and to pay a licence fee. To acquire an importation permit for feed products, the fees range from $20 to $80. An export permit is $100. It is an offence to import or export animal feed without a licence, which is punishable by a fine not exceeding level 12 and/or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years.

The Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act prohibits the torture or mistreatment or neglect of animals. It is an offence to cruelly beat, kick, ill-treat, override, overdrive, overload or tortures any animal or cause any animal to be used in this manner.

ANIMAL IDENTIFICATION AND TRACEABILITY

FEED SAFETY AND QUALITY

ANIMAL WELFARE

AQUACULTURE

INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK RELEVANT TO ANIMAL PRODUCTION