Outdated equipment hinders farmers’ fight against locusts
Farmers in the Murraysburg district in the Western Cape are currently experiencing the most extensive outbreak of locusts in the area since February last year, covering an area of 10km...
Solution needed for SA’s ‘complex’ communal land tenure
Almost a third of South Africa’s population lives in remote rural areas on communal, subsistence agricultural land.
Watchdog needed to regulate SA’s grain industry
The South African grain industry is currently riddled with debates about the availability and credibility of market information, despite the fact that the available industry information is trustworthy.
SA farmers to be hard-hit by sharp increase in diesel price
With the Brent Crude oil price now trading at more than US$60/barrel (about R901,60/barrel), the South African agriculture sector can expect to bear the brunt of ongoing increases in fuel...
Dire outlook for Gamtoos farmers as Kouga Dam falls below 7%
With the level of the Kouga Dam now at below 7%, the Gamtoos Irrigation Board (GIB) has warned water users in the region that it cannot supply water adequately below...
Weak appetite for Bill Gates’s lab-grown meat solution
US Billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates’s solution to an impeding climate change disaster, which involves switching from consuming real meat to consuming synthetic meat, has been met with strong reactions...
Budget 2021: ‘Government scraping the bottom of the fiscal barrel’
While the agriculture sector received a fair amount of attention in this year’s budget speech, which was recently tabled in Parliament by Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni, there was concern...
Agri department wants to recruit 10 000 extension officers
The budget allocated to the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (agriculture department), which was tabled as part of the National Budget by Minister of Finance, Tito Mboweni...
Mboweni must cut spending ‘without fear or favour’
With the Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni due to present his 2021/2022 National Budget Speech on Wednesday, 24 February, stakeholders in South Africa’s agriculture sector have expressed their expectations for...
Speculators blamed for recent African swine fever outbreak
A limited outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) on a farm near Potchefstroom earlier this month has been confirmed by the South African Pork Producers’ Organisation (SAPPO).
Proposal to double sugar tax ‘unfair and unfortunate’
A recent call by South Africa’s Healthy Living Alliance (HEALA) for government to double the Health Promotion Levy (HPL) on sugar-sweetened beverages, commonly known as the sugar tax, has been...
US cannabis stocks start the year on a high
Cannabis stocks in the US started the year on a high with producers in the US and Canada issuing stocks worth US$1,38 billion [about R20 billion] in the first five...
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