The group will be co-chaired by Agriculture Victoria chief executive officer Matt Lowe and the Emergency Management Commissioner Andrew Crisp.
The Victorian government will establish an Emergency Animal Disease task force to prepare for an incursion of foot-and-mouth disease , which is currently circulating through parts of Indonesia.The Victorian government has developed a task force to prepare for a foot and mouth disease outbreakThree hundred biosecurity staff are being trained in disease mitigation
The Australian government has ramped up biosecurity measures to prevent foot-and-mouth and lumpy skin disease entering the country, since it was discovered in Bali, Indonesia a month ago. "We want to get a focus and targeted government response to a whole range of things we need to put in place in terms of being prepared and to prevent an outbreak," Victorian Agriculture Minister Gayle Tierney said.
"This is a good time [to] have those conversations at a grassroots level that give farmers the opportunity to turn that anxiety into very positive practical measures.
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