🇿🇦 South Africa
Current and comprehensive agriculture, market and development news in South Africa.
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Climate
Climate adaptive farming innovations tackle food insecurity
South Africa is ranked 30th driest country in the world, with a high risk of water and food insecurity. This…
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Business
ZAR385,000 incentive boosts production fortunes of Hankey Cooperative
A once-informal family project has become one of the Sarah Baartman district’s most promising agribusiness success stories. Established in 2015…
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News
Meatco eyes Central African markets with redline farmers to benefit
Meatco’s interim CEO Albertus !Aochamub and his leadership team recently held high-level consultations with senior members of the Shoprite Checkers…
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Future of Farming
UPL Corp. launches Smart Climate Ag
UPL Corporation, a global provider of sustainable agricultural solutions, has launched Smart Climate Ag, a climate-positive programme for South African…
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Apiculture
South Africa committed to strengthen beekeeping industry
Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen has reaffirmed government’s commitment to strengthening South Africa’s beekeeping industry, describing honeybees as “the farmers of…
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News
Bühler to showcase smart silo technology at Africa’s premier agrifood investment platform
Smart silos and grain storage technology will be the focus of a key presentation by Marco Sutter, Managing Director of…
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Insight
Micropropagation of plum cultivars: A first for South Africa
Micropropagation in tissue culture is widely recognised as an effective method for the mass production of disease-free plants. It’s especially…
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News
R350,000 boost to enter meat value chain for rural livestock cooperative
A R350,000 injection into an Eastern Cape rural livestock cooperative last week from the Eastern Cape Development Corporation (ECDC) managed…
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