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Subsistence farming
It is no use debating about subsistence farming vs commercial farming. Subsistence farming practices must improve and can’t always be achieved through commercial farming models.
Greetings from Ireland
I’m an Irish tillage farmer who enjoys reading your magazine. I visit South Africa annually and seem to catch the end of your harvest season every year.
Jobs in fracking?
Is there anyone who can explain to me about the ‘job opportunities’ argument mentioned by pro-fracking people?
Give us more inspiration
Your editor’s call to action ‘Let’s reinstate civic pride’ (24 August, pg 5) is a good tonic for the end of winter blues and I think this could be a...
Time to get to work
With reference to the news feature ‘Trevor’s plan for land reform & agriculture’ (31 August pg 18), the pressure is on. The recent Marikana tragedy serves to remind us of...
Poor soil increases problems
I read the article ‘Adopt sustainable practices’ (27 July, pg 8) with interest.
A potential natural disaster
I refer to an article in The Sunday Tribune dated 29 July on the ‘Zero Hunger’ project in which the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF), together with the...
Saving strawberries
Since May 2012 I’ve had an incredible crop of Selecta Strawberries, picking handfuls of 100% organic strawberries daily with hardly any irrigation or fertiliser applied to the beds.
Your readers should be told the truth about Zim
It was with great concern that I read the ‘misinformation’ portrayed in the article entitled ‘There is no alternative’ (17 August, pg 36), in which Kallie Kriel answered questions from...
More goods & better production
I refer to Prof Andre Jooste’s report outlined in ‘How agri-food value chains work’ (20 July, pg 42).
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