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Grain SA calls on producers to attend regional meetings
Grain producers have been called on to attend Grain SA's regional meetings this month to help the organisation promote and ensure the sustainable and profitable production of grain in South Africa. Issue Date: 16 February 2007
Dairy companies to submit defences
Time is nearly up for the eight SA dairy-processing companies accused of anti-competitive behaviour to submit their defences to the Competition Tribunal.Issue Date: 16 February 2007
Pick ‘n Pay gets red light on buyout
The proposed acquisition of Fruit & Veg City by national retailer Pick 'n Pay has been put on hold by the Competition Commission. Issue Date: 16 February 2007
Crop census to gauge data reliability
In an effort to make crop estimates more reliable, the Maize Trust of South Africa has commissioned SiQ, a company specialising in field surveying, agricultural statistics and software development, to conduct a census of planted crops this season.
Avo group rejects abuse claims
Israeli produce group Agrexco Carmel has dismissed allegations that it is producing avocados under conditions in which workers' rights are abused.Issue Date: 16 February 2007
Plan promises better competition for fruit canning
The fruit canning industry task team recently finalised a business plan to enhance global competitiveness.Issue Date: 16 February 2007
China deal a ‘big step forward’ for SA
SA agricultural industry LEADERS have welcomed the export agreements that were signed with last week, saying the deals will open up huge new markets for SA produce and result in cost savings for exporters.Issue Date: 16 February 2007
Setback for Bothaville ethanol plant
Ethanol Africa has temporarily halted construction of its Bothaville, Free State ethanol production plant due to delays in raising additional funding and indecision over which construction model would be most suited to the project.Issue Date: 16 February 2007
Clover still faces four charges
National dairy processor Clover has been let off the hook for one charge by agreeing to cooperate with the Competition Commission in its investigation into alleged anti-competitive behaviour in the dairy industry.
Issue Date 9 February 2007
Parmalat pays farmers 15c/litre more
Parmalat South Africa recently increased the price it pays to members of the SA Milk Cooperative (Samilco) by 15c a litre.
Issue Date: 9 February 2007
Milk shortage to cause price rise
Consumers will be forced to FORK out a little more for milk and dairy products due to an international and local milk shortage.
Issue Date: 9 February 2007
Issue Date: 9 February 2007
Perspective – 9 February 2007
The iconic, sphinx-shaped hill at Isandlwana, KZN, looms above the whitewashed cairns erected in memory of the British soldiers who died here in the battle against the Zulus in 1879. It's on this battlefield, and others in northern KZN such as Rorke's Drift, where David Rattray, renowned historian and expert on the Anglo-Zulu War, conducted his famous tours.
Issue Date 9 February 2007
Issue Date 9 February 2007
Tongaat-Hulett invests R1,3 billion in Mozambique
The Tongaat-Hulett Group (THG) plans to increase its annual sugar production capacity in Mozambique by 155 000 tons following the approval of R1,3 billion to be used to expand its operations there.
Issue Date: 9 February 2007
Issue Date: 9 February 2007
Senwesko Feeds re-branded
Senwesko Feeds has been re- branded to Nutri Feeds.
Issue Date 9 February 2007
SA winemakers will get by
A few SA wine producers will be negatively affected by the loss of 168 French oak wine barrels and wine equipment after the MSC Napoli ran aground at Branscombe in the UK.
Issue Date: 9 February 2007
Official linked to murder
An Mpumalanga Home Affairs official has been arrested in connection with the murder of Johan Prins who was shot dead on his farm in Groblersdal last month.
Issue Date 9 February
Flood Relief Scheme being redrafted
Agri Eastern Cape has expressed disappointment with the agriculture department's draft Flood Disaster Relief Scheme for the period ending 31 December 2007, saying it's “discriminatory against commercial agriculture”.
Issue date 9 February
Mbeki urged to break deadlock
The controversy concerning reported remarks by land and agriculture minister Lulama Xingwana that rape and assault of farmworkers were rife in the sector looks set to continue.
Issue Date: 9 February 2007
Wine tourism – an answer to the wine industry’s woes?
The wine surplus across the globe is putting the livelihoods of wine farmers under pressure. While there are no easy answers, key role-players in the South African wine industry feel wine tourism has an important part to play in the survival and growth of the industry, and are urging local producers to embrace all they have to offer. Sonja Burger reports.
No to half-baked habitats
This is the first in a series of five articles on habitat planning in which habitat designer and wildlife biologist Ben Breedlove explains how to create a fully functional and optimised habitat when farming on a fragment of land, thus getting the most out of animals and visitors.
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