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The Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (Casp), which funds farm infrastructure for emerging farmers, is crucial to the commercial sustainability of land reform.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

Last year's policy shift allowing the state to take an active role in identifying and buying land for redistribution, rather than forcing Land Affairs to wait for land reform applications to arrive on its desk, should speed up spending considerably.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

The Department of Land Affairs' land reform budget has increased eightfold from about R500 million to R4,2 billion from 2000/01 to 2006/07 - mostly for buying land.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

Although agriculture hardly got a mention in the 2007 national budget speech of finance minister Trevor Manuel, spending allocations in other areas of the economy will arguably have indirect spin-offs for the sector.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

The opening sale of the summer 2007 mohair marketing season did not meet expectations, although the market indicator compares well with the closing sale of the 2006 winter season, said Mohair SA.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

The Durban High Court has ordered agriculture and land affairs minister Lulama Xingwana to reinstate a R12 million contract for the management of the Fourth World Congress of Rural Women to a Durban public relations company.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

The wool market held up well despite a stronger rand, with Cape Wools' overall indicator closing a marginal 0,5% lower at R37,89/kg (clean), according to spokesperson Ona Viljoen in Port Elizabeth.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

The present narrow focus on land reform only, instead of farming as a business, is counter-productive and is the root cause of failures and the lack of sustainability within the emerging sector...
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

Land and agriculture minister Lulama Xingwana and her Malaysian counterpart Haji Muhyiddin bin Mohd Yassin recently agreed to cooperate in agricultural trade
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

Th e Agricultural Business Chamber (ABC)/Industrial Development Corporation Confidence Index for the first quarter of 2007 recorded a 23,9% increase
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

Predator breeders around SA have reacted sharply to the regulations on canned lion hunting recently announced by environmental affairs and tourism minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk, saying they will lead to massive economic losses in the industry.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007

For the novice cook producing a classic chicken � la king is one of the marks of future greatness...To take this classic off the launching pad and into the stratosphere, this recipe adds one powerful ingredient: fresh prawns, out of the shell, augmented with garlic and extra-virgin olive oil.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007