Another big issue is the poor supply of vaccines from Onderstepoort Biological Products (OBP), which has failed to deliver the necessary quantity of vaccines to farmers over the past two years.
Because of this, critical vaccinations have been missed this past summer. OBP has promised that production is now back on track, but for most farmers it’s a little too late, said Visser, discussing this week’s Farmer’s Weekly.
Also in Farmer’s Weekly this week, the Agri Sector Unity Forum land reform proposal; Botswana’s crop farmers hard-hit by heat and drought; former minister of agriculture Kraai van Niekerk discusses his honey bee farming enterprise and the resilience and versatility of guar, or cluster beans.
