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The CEO of the Milk Producers' Organisation, Bertus de Jongh, said he is certain farmers would welcome any price increase, but warned that incentives designed to make farmers meet empowerment targets should be employed through mechanisms other than price.
Issue Date 16 March 2007

Clover recently launched its “state of the art” milk processing plant in Perseverance, between Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage. The facility, the first of its kind in the Eastern Cape, will produce fresh and long-life UHT milk.
Issue Date 16 March 2007

KwaZulu-Natal-based Truffles of Africa is the first South African company to have imported the spore of the black truffle (Tuber melanosporum).
Issue Date 16 March 2007

The SA Stone Fruit PRODUCERS' Association (Saspa) in conjunction with the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market (JFPM) and leading agents recently held a plum information day at the JFPM. The project aimed to create consumer awareness and educate informal traders and retailers about basic handling procedures, optimum ripeness and the nutritional value of plums.
Issue Date 16 March 2007

Former state president FW de Klerk said steps should be taken to increase Africa's diminishing share of global trade which, he said, has declined from 2% in 1980 to 1% in 1999.
Issue Date 16 March 2007

Gauteng and North West land claims commissioner Tumi Seboka has warned that in all cases where negotiations on land claims cannot be concluded as a result of “intransigence and deliberate frustration by the landowners”, she will advise government to expropriate.
Issue Date 16 March 2007

What a gem!
Elizabeth Mathys, who works as a domestic worker on a farm in the Koo Valley in Montagu in the Western Cape, proudly shows off this gigantic gem squash that was grown in the farm's vegetable garden.
Issue Date 16 March 2007

Cape Mohair and Wool's (CMW's) reliance on borrowings for funding, together with the loss incurred in sales of accumulated wool stocks, has resulted in lower earnings than expected, according to chairperson Peter Cawood. “Because of the continued and escalated rate of business growth and the drop in wool earnings the cost of financing has increased considerably,” said Cawood.
Issue Date 16 March 2007

The North West Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment has just wrapped up an awareness campaign aimed increasing communities' awareness of land care issues in the province.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

Free State Agriculture (FSA) has decided to postpone its application for various districts in the province to officially be declared drought-stricken areas, saying it would wait another 10 or 14 days in the hope of some good rainfall.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

SA's best butchers were honoured at the annual Cleaver awards ceremony in Johannesburg recently.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

Is it beer? Is it milk? Hello, Bilk!
Huge drop in Oz crop forecast
British meat exports blast off
Issue Date: 9 March 2007