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Communal wool and mohair growers benefit from BKB

Beneficiaries of a trust, formed by BKB for wool and mohair growers in the former Ciskei and Transkei, received R1,7 million in dividends for 2007.
Issue Date: 30 November 2007

Buyers to be warned against immature avos

Fuerte avocados will in future have a “maturity tested” logo attached to assure buyers that the avos will ripen.
Issue Date: 30 November 2007

Unique L’popo land tax deal

While concern is mounting over the implementation of the Municipal Property Rates Act among farmers around Tzaneen Agri SA members have negotiated with their local municipality to put their tax to good use and benefit the entire rural community.
Issue Date: 30 November 2007

Illovo’s profits low despite good sales

Illovo Sugar expects this year's average local raw sugar price to be almost US5c/lb lower than last year. “The world raw sugar price has been volatile, but recently stabilised at around US10c/lb,” says managing director Don MacLeod.
Issue Date: 30 November 2007

Ezemvelo Wildlife board suspended

In the wake of Allegations of financial mismanagement and disarray in the operations of world-renowned and respected conservation organisation, Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife, its board's accounting authority has been suspended for four months.
Issue Date: 30 November 2007

The smart way to do business in Africa

The recent Agriculture Africa Export and Investment Symposium highlighted the export of agricultural products to Africa. “Doing business in Africa can be daunting, yet there are boundless opportunities in the profitable export industry. All you need do is identify the risks and manage them accordingly,” said Ismail Dadabhay, general manager of Credit Guarantee Insurance Corporation's export division.
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International dairy prices still up

International prices for dairy commodities continued to trade at extremely high levels in October, with most commodities at or marginally below record levels.
Issue Date: 30 November 2007

Cotton demand outgrows supply

World cotton production is expected to decline by 2% in 2007/08 to 26,1 million tons, with world cotton imports forecast to rise by 10% to 9,1 million tons, due to an expected rebound in Chinese imports to 3,5 million tons.
Issue Date: 30 November 2007

Bird flu hits England again

The highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 bird flu has reached England for a second time this year with a confirmed case on a turkey farm on the Suffolk-Norfolk county border.
Issue date: 30 November 2007

Sound water use gives food security

Better water and land management will enhance the worldwide supply of food and fibre, according to the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage. The commission's second conference, held in Muldersdrift recently, focused on the natural, human, social, physical and financial resources needed to improve water and land management and the productivity of irrigated and drained lands.
Issue date: 30 November 2007

Komatiland Forests face tribunal

The competition commission has referred a complaint by New Scotland Sawmill against state-owned Komatiland Forests (KLF) to the competition tribunal.
Issue date: 30 November 2007

Mainstay best vodka in the world

South African cane spirit Mainstay was recently named the best vodka in the world by the exclusive selection panel of the International Wine & Spirit Competition in London.
Issue date: 30 November 2007

Mohair market steadies

The second-last mohair sale of the winter season was characterised by good competition among all five buying houses.
Issue date: 30 November 2007

Farmworkers on the march

The SA Communist Party (SACP) and Food and Allied Workers' Union (Fawu) organised a march of about 500 farmworkers through Rustenburg in North West on 17 November to protest against living conditions on farms and the poor state of rural clinics.
Issue date: 30 November 2007

Goat traders await R3m hub

A R3 million purpose-built trading hub for goat traders in Ezimbuzini, KZN, due to open in December, will catapult traders into the 21st century.
Issue date: 30 November 2007

Cape Wools gets new chairperson

Geoff Kingwill, a wool producer from Murraysburg, was unanimously elected chairperson of Cape Wools at a recent board of directors' meeting following the AGM.
Issue date: 30 November 2007

Namibia: land reform not reducing poverty

Namibia's land reform programme is a “zero-sum game” that merely swaps one form of poverty for another, according to an independent report on attempts to find an equitable solution to racially skewed land ownership.
Issue date: 30 November 2007

Confusion over EU meat product ban

The EU has banned certain meat products, but the SA Department of Agriculture says it's because they recommended the ban. Priscilla Sehoole, spokesperson for the department, says the ban only includes commodities that are exported at very low levels such as pork, lamb, chicken and milk, and not game and ostrich.
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TAU SA approaches DA for land tax clout

TAU SA leadership recently met a DA delegation of leader Helen Zille, former agriculture minister Kraai van Niekerk, Maans Nel and former Bothaville farmer Andries Botha, to discuss matters affecting agriculture, especially the new land tax.
Issue date: 30 November 2007

A call for more sustainable farming in Southern Africa

The UN Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) convened a two-day regional conservation agriculture (CA) expert panel discussion in Harare, Zimbabwe, earlier this month. Representatives of SADC, FAO and CA experts analysed the state of in the region with the aim of establishing national and regional task forces.
Issue date: 30 November 2007

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