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How BEE made this stone fruit producer
Motivation is at an all-time high and theft and absenteeism have evaporated among farmworkers two years after this farm was converted into a massive BEE enterprise. In an area not suited to stone fruit production, Bambanani has doubled production and secured long-term benefits for workers. Sharon Götte reports.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
The land of milk & honeybush
The people of Haarlem in the Langkloof were harvesting wild honeybush long before commercial growing and the current market boom. But in a town of 3 000-odd townspeople, 80% were left without an income in the off-season. Today, Charlton Fortuin of the Haarlem Honeybush Association has already helped lead their organically certified teas straight to Pick 'n Pay's shelves. Glenneis Erasmus reports.
Issue : 20 June 2008
Issue : 20 June 2008
Taking the guesswork out of breeding
Bertus Mong is one of SA's leading beef producers, having won the ARC-ABSA Beef Cattle Improvement Herd of the Year with his BM Hereford stud for three consecutive years. He recently spoke to Glenneis Erasmus about the benefits of performance testing.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Boreholes and boeremusiek
The development of farming in the arid interior owes a great deal to the old stamper drills and vastrap concertinas, writes Roelof Bezuidenhout.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
SA blooms at the Chelsea Flower Show
Issue date : 20 June 2008
SA’s first home-bred Pintabian
When Raine Heart foaled on the 29 February, her foal Al Barec Jill officially became South Africa's first home-bred Pintabian filly.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Agri is World Development Bank’s hero
Titled World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development, the World Development Bank's report champions agriculture's role in the fight against poverty and food insecurity - and the bank has pledged to put US$800 million where its mouth is. Glenneis Erasmus reports.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
SANDF to outsource border functions
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Organic cotton now grown commercially
The first organic cotton planted on a commercial scale in South Africa was harvested on 29 May at the Hanneline farm in Limpopo.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
German dairy farmers win producer price war – while SA industry bleeds
The German dairy strike is over after 10 days of withholding milk.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
International food summit doesn’t live up to expectations
The WORLD Food Security Summit in Rome seems to have been only a weak first step towards UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon's prediction that the world will have to produce 50% more food by 2030 to meet rising demand.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
An old co-op turned into a shopping mall
The Sentraal-Suid Co-op (SSK) buildings in Swellendam's business centre will be developed into a large 7 600m² retail complex worth R70 million, SSK CEO Erenst Pelser announced recently.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Fuel costs and bad policy threaten food security
Agriculture business chamber (ABC) CEO Dr John Purchase called on government to develop and implement solutions to address the core cause of the food-cost crisis, currently playing out locally and internationally.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
A billboard gets a new, bullish lease on life
For 12 years since the 1994 elections, this billboard outside Aliwal North in the Eastern Cape stood bare.
June 2008
June 2008
Land claimants to foot bill for wasting court’s time
The main claimants in SA's BIGGEST land claim, Tenbosch, have been ordered to pay the legal costs of nine legal teams, as well as the financial losses the Land Claims Court incurred to hear the trial in Malelane, Mpumalanga.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Call to share Afrikaner expertise with emerging farmers
Former World Bank managing director Mamphela Ramphele has called on South Africa to embrace the expertise of the Afrikaner farming base as part of its strategy to resolve the global food crisis.
Issue date : 20 June 2008
Issue date : 20 June 2008
‘It’s actually going very well for agriculture’
Agriculture is going through a revolution, according to Absa Agribusiness head Ernst Janovsky
Issue date: 20 June 2008
Issue date: 20 June 2008
Haemanthus – Paint Brush Flowers
Paint brush flowers occur naturally in a vast range of habitats and make pleasant garden subjects that are relatively easy to maintain, writes Cameron McMaster.
Issue date 13 June 2008
Issue date 13 June 2008
townie the buitelander
Xenophobia - The latest buzzword IN the SABC's vocabulary.
Issue date : 13 June 2008
Issue date : 13 June 2008
Chickens of the bush
Che-che-chirra! che-che-chirra!" It was an explosive and excited call just outside my tent that shattered the quiet before dawn.
Issue date 13 June 2008
Issue date 13 June 2008
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