South Africa

Livestock producers were urged to see to it that their animals have access to sufficient water in the drought.

A high level Western Cape government delegation is in China to promote the province’s wine through project Khulisa, among other things.

South African pulp and paper company Sappi reported a strong performance in its 2015 fourth quarter results.

South African agricultural services and processing company AFGRI has entered into a partnership with India-based post-harvest agricultural management company, National Collateral Management Services.

The red meat industry expressed its appreciation for the R220 million the department of agriculture announced for emergency aid, but said an independent study showed that KwaZulu-Natal alone needed R740 million.

The drought in the Free State continues. Virtually no rain has been recorded in the province since the advent of the summer rain season in October.

Concerned major stakeholders from organised agriculture, organised agribusiness, the banking sector and government institutions met on 10 November...

A public-private partnership in rural southern KwaZulu-Natal has taken the first steps towards the ambitious goal of eventually having communal farmers in the area collectively growing more than 23 000ha of soybeans every summer.

The El Niño weather pattern has had a markedly negative impact on the prospects of grain producers in South Africa’s 2015/2016 grain production season so far, according to Dr Dirk Strydom, head of Agricultural Economics at the University of the Free State (UFS).

The Rural Development and Land Reform (DRDLR) programme has allocated land to farm workers in Bathurst in the Eastern Cape and Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape.

Riaan Fielies from Windfall wine farm outside Robertson was recently named winner of the South African Cellar Worker Programme at an information day for cellar workers.

The US has suspended R2,45 billion worth of agricultural trade under the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) with South Africa.