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Get to grips with fire risks

With the fire season upon the summer rainfall regions of South Africa, the Department of Water Affairs and Forestry urged landowners to make sure that they are aware of regulations pertaining to wildfire prevention and control, and of the implications of failing to abide by these regulations.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

DEAT wants closer ties with game ranchers

Game farming and hunting contributes significantly to conservation, tourism development, job creation and sustainable development in rural areas, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, minister of environmental affairs and tourism, told a much relieved Professional Hunters' Association of SA meeting in Johannesburg.
Issue Date:1 June 2007

Woolworths toys with the idea of predator-friendly meat

Woolworths is investigating the issue of selling predator-friendly meat products.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

‘Wool surge differs from 2001/02’

The wool market performed well in spite of a stronger currency, with prices strengthening on the back of solid demand from major buying houses.
Issue Date: 1 June 2007

Risk of FS crop failure ‘high’

Free State dry land wheat farmers will probably not hasten to start planting this season due to the dry rainy season that has just passed.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

Accused farmers turn state witness

The two young Mid-Illovo, KZN, farmers who were originally charged with the murder of an alleged poacher in 2004, Justin Lusso and Nick van Rooyen, have had all charges dropped against them and have been ordered by the prosecution in the case to become state witnesses against two others accused of the murder.
Issue Date: 1 June 2007

SANDF rejects commando call

The Democratic Alliance (DA) is calling on government to place a moratorium on the phasing out of the commando system.
Issue Date: 1 June 2007

NGOs ask for missing reports

Six top environmental NGOs HAVE called on government to release two important reports, compiled three years ago, in connection with environmental policy and sustainable development.
Issue Date: 1 June 2007

Agricultural pow-wow with Mbeki deemed a success

Agriculture is becoming a bigger priority for President Thabo Mbeki. This was the general feeling of all parties who attended the Presidential Agricultural Working Group, which took place at Tuynhuys in Cape Town on 15 May.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

‘What you don’t hear from anti-GM activists’

ANTI-GM LOBBY GROUPS ARE WITHHOLDING crucial facts from the public, said Dr Willy de Greef , agro biotechnology research specialist from Brussels, who is an internationally recognised authority and consultant on genetically modified crops.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

SA needs biotech investment – minister

The Deputy Minister of Science and technology Derek Hanekom urged biotech organisations to invest in SA to help develop the biotech sectors.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

Hendricks to tackle water-wasters

Government has started a massive campaign to reduce the “unacceptably high” levels of water losses in South Africa's distribution system.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

Cultural trade baffles NAMC

Informal trade and BEE is presenting its fair share of challenges, and the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) is working towards better understanding and solving the problems facing the farming sector.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

Africa News – 1 June 2007

Kenya's coastline flooded
Cattle clashes kill 15 in Kenya
Ethiopia gets a seed bank
'Speed up African integration'
Issue Date 1 June 2007

Afgri soars despite tough market

Agricultural services business Afgri has seen a 65,5 % increase in their headline earnings for the year to February 2007.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

Higher sugar prices boost Illovo

With an operating profit exceeding R1 billion and headline earnings of over R500 million for the 2006/07 financial year ended 31 March, Illovo Sugar has good reason for sweet smiles.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

Speedy land reform plans get a thumbs-up

Much support was voiced for the introduction of a special purpose vehicle (SPV) by Lulama Xingwana, minister of agriculture and land affairs, to accelerate the pace of land redistribution at the budget vote recently held in parliament.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

Biofuel concerns linger

The Department of Agriculture recently hosted a workshop on biofuels to provide agricultural sector stakeholders with an opportunity to make additional input before the strategy is finalised and tabled to government.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

Cold hits the Eastern Cape

The Eastern Cape has arguably been struck the hardest by bitterly cold weather that engulfed the country. Across the country important roads have been closed to traffic due to severe snowfalls on major mountain ranges including the Camdeboo, Amatola, Winterberg, Stormberg, Witteberg and Cape Drakensberg mountains.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

Mixed reactions to icy weather

The recent cold snap that clutched the country in an icy grip caused mixed emotions across the agricultural sphere. While most farmers welcomed the cold air, others suffered losses and fear more hardship to come.
Issue Date 1 June 2007

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