South Africa

The Agricultural Research Council (ARC) and the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) today (4 November) launched a collaborative research project to directly link resource-poor farmers with major SA supermarkets.

The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) recently adopted a motion tabled by Roy Jankielsohn, DA MP, and leader in the Free State Provincial Legislature, on drought relief.

Two Stellenbosch-based winemakers are determined to take advantage of the positive developments in Cuba and open an export market for their wines in the Caribbean country.

DA MP and spokesperson for agriculture Annette Steyn took to Twitter recently to share photos of the devastating drought conditions that have plagued communities in Hluhlwe, KZN.

Agriculture minister Senzeni Zokwana was reportedly fuming after learning of a recent brazen robbery at his department’s abalone storage facility at Paarden Island in Cape Town.

Stock theft in Stella has escalated to such an extent farmers have been forced to the brink of bankruptcy, according to the National Stock Theft Prevention Forum (NSTPF) of SA.

SA’s National Agricultural Marketing Board (NAMC) has projected a total supply of maize of 12 473 329t for the 2015/2016 marketing season in its latest Supply and Demand Estimates Report.

Tiger Brands CEO Peter Matlare will step down at the end of December.

Denmark and South Africa will be entering into a long-term partnership to find solutions to South Africa’s immediate and future water supply crisis

Speaking at AFASA's 4th annual AGM and conference in Pretoria, DRDLR director general Mdu Shabana said that government is ready with the ‘levers’ to speed up land reform.

Government has been urged to speedily provide meaningful drought-relief interventions to farmers in the North West, Free State and KwaZulu-Natal.

Large scale contamination of rivers may bring fruit, wine and vegetable industries to a halt should rehabilitation programmes not be executed effectively.

South Africa’s government is working hard at opening up markets for agricultural products, according to minister of agriculture Senzeni Zokwana.

SA Agricultural Writers’ central branch named Piet Karsten from Kanoneiland as the Northern Cape Farmer of the Year and Brian Angus from Arlington as the Free State Farmer of the Year at a gala event in Bloemfontein recently.

Sugarcane farmer Anthony Goble won the 2015 Toyota/Agri SA Young Farmer award and Jacky Goliath, fynbos grower, were announced as the 2015 Toyota New Harvest Awards in Johannesburg on Thursday.

In a letter to Farmer’s Weekly, the secretary general of the African Farmers Association of South Africa (Afasa), Aggrey Mahanjana, has objected to comments that were attributed to him in a news article published in the Farmer’s Weekly of 23 October 2015, titled ‘ANC officially now wants farm workers to own shares in farms’.

The agriculture sector can make a significant contribution to energy savings in the private sector by increasing energy use efficiency in primary and secondary production processes.

The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) has made slow progress in meeting its performance targets for the 2015/16 financial year.

The farming community came out in numbers for the 2015 Agri SA congress in Irene, Pretoria, recently.

Yet another South African farmer has turned the tables on his attackers, killing one and wounding another.