Caxton Magazines
SA imports first-ever black truffle spore
KwaZulu-Natal-based Truffles of Africa is the first South African company to have imported the spore of the black truffle (Tuber melanosporum).
Issue Date 16 March 2007
Issue Date 16 March 2007
Information day emphasises role of plum education
The SA Stone Fruit PRODUCERS' Association (Saspa) in conjunction with the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market (JFPM) and leading agents recently held a plum information day at the JFPM. The project aimed to create consumer awareness and educate informal traders and retailers about basic handling procedures, optimum ripeness and the nutritional value of plums.
Issue Date 16 March 2007
Issue Date 16 March 2007
‘Africa needs expanded trade’
Former state president FW de Klerk said steps should be taken to increase Africa's diminishing share of global trade which, he said, has declined from 2% in 1980 to 1% in 1999.
Issue Date 16 March 2007
Issue Date 16 March 2007
‘I’ll advise expropriation’
Gauteng and North West land claims commissioner Tumi Seboka has warned that in all cases where negotiations on land claims cannot be concluded as a result of “intransigence and deliberate frustration by the landowners”, she will advise government to expropriate.
Issue Date 16 March 2007
Issue Date 16 March 2007
Perspective
What a gem!
Elizabeth Mathys, who works as a domestic worker on a farm in the Koo Valley in Montagu in the Western Cape, proudly shows off this gigantic gem squash that was grown in the farm's vegetable garden.
Issue Date 16 March 2007
Elizabeth Mathys, who works as a domestic worker on a farm in the Koo Valley in Montagu in the Western Cape, proudly shows off this gigantic gem squash that was grown in the farm's vegetable garden.
Issue Date 16 March 2007
CMW’s funding debts send earnings below par
Cape Mohair and Wool's (CMW's) reliance on borrowings for funding, together with the loss incurred in sales of accumulated wool stocks, has resulted in lower earnings than expected, according to chairperson Peter Cawood. “Because of the continued and escalated rate of business growth and the drop in wool earnings the cost of financing has increased considerably,” said Cawood.
Issue Date 16 March 2007
Issue Date 16 March 2007
NW campaign fosters care of the land
The North West Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Environment has just wrapped up an awareness campaign aimed increasing communities' awareness of land care issues in the province.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Free State ‘fast heading for disaster’
Free State Agriculture (FSA) has decided to postpone its application for various districts in the province to officially be declared drought-stricken areas, saying it would wait another 10 or 14 days in the hope of some good rainfall.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
SA awards its best butchers
SA's best butchers were honoured at the annual Cleaver awards ceremony in Johannesburg recently.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
International News- 9 March 2007
Is it beer? Is it milk? Hello, Bilk!
Huge drop in Oz crop forecast
British meat exports blast off
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Huge drop in Oz crop forecast
British meat exports blast off
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
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
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 to arrive on its desk, should speed up spending considerably.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
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 2007
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
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 for the sector.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
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 Mohair SA.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
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 to a Durban public relations company.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
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 Elizabeth.
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
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 emerging sector...
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
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 trade
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
Issue 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
Issue Date: 9 March 2007
