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Last week hundreds of employees from Ceres Fruit Growers (CFG), one of South Africa’s biggest apple and pear packaging and storage companies, went on strike demanding higher wages.

Free State Agriculture has petitioned the South African Employment Commission of the Department of labour to implement an inflation-related wage increase for the agriculture sector for the next three years.

An aquaculture project in Hamburg in the Eastern Cape, established by the department of agriculture, has harvested and sold its first crop of 260 dusky kob fish, commonly known as kabeljou.

The University of the Free State (UFS) supports the development of a long-term sustainable and profitable agricultural sector on the African continent, according to Prof Neil Heideman, dean of the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the institution. Annelie Coleman asked him how the university has positioned itself to add value to the sector.

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Peru has abandoned its self-destructive policies and the results speak for themselves. Could we be next?

Louis Meintjies, president of TAU SA, draws a line in the sand on how far commercial farmers can be pushed, and calls on other farmers to join him in order to defeat this ‘psychological war’.

Hundreds of employees from Ceres Fruit Growers, one of South Africa’s biggest apple and pear packaging and storage companies, have gone on strike demanding higher wages.

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In the fresh produce sector, the word ‘quality’ is probably used more than any other when describing fruit and vegetables.

In the fresh produce sector, the word ‘quality’ is probably used more than any other when describing fruit and vegetables.