Capacity constraints hamper Casp
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
BUDGET:State’s proactive approach to accelerate spending
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...
Budget: Underspending by Land Affairs could reach R1,5bn
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...
Budget: Views on an ‘agriculturally negative’ budget speech
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...
Mohair demand remains strong for young goat hair
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...
PR company gets contract back
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...
Strong rand fails to dampen wool
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...
Land reform is doomed without business savvy – report
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...
SA forges ties with Malaysia
Land and agriculture minister Lulama Xingwana and her Malaysian counterpart Haji Muhyiddin bin Mohd Yassin recently agreed to cooperate in agricultural tradeIssue Date: 9 March 2007
Agribusiness confidence is up
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
New hunting rules spark controversy
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...
Prawn and chicken � la king
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,...
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