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Budget 2020: Agriculture sector expects action
...planting time is over.” Steyn also emphasised that no funds had been budgeted to address challenges such as the drought and the recent foot-and-mouth disease outbreak. Other industry role players...
SA water crisis: Climate change not the only culprit
A serious, multi-year drought in the Northern Cape and Eastern Cape has seen a number of small towns threatened by total water supply failures and livestock farmers facing financial ruin....
How to sustainably manage livestock after a drought
The protracted drought in the western regions of South Africa will not continue forever. Once the drought has been broken, livestock farmers will be faced with many challenges such as...
Challenges to feeding a growing population
...slow. Also essential to achieving significantly increased 4Fs production are the development and ready availability of new and improved agricultural technologies, such as varieties of seed and drought- and herbicide-tolerant...
India reports crop damage as locust plague spreads to Asia
...desert locusts could travel up to 150km a day. The plague could exacerbate food shortages in a region, following three consecutive years of droughts and floods, according to aid agencies....
‘Drought resulted in wine imports’
South African wine cellars and traders imported more than 40 million litres of wine during the 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 seasons to make up for local shortfalls resulting from the drought...
The reality ahead of SONA 2020
...great potential despite the gloomy national economic outlook ahead of us. This is despite the fact that the Eastern Cape and Northern Cape experienced devastating drought in the second and...
Agri SA calls on Ramaphosa to ‘stop talking and take action’
...on government to work with the agriculture sector to find sustainable solutions, as well as prioritise drought relief and the use of private sector skills and expertise to mitigate risks...
Rewards and pitfalls of communal wool production
...the drought, this is even more the case,” says Gaqazele. The NWGA offers training to illustrate to farmers the disadvantages of marketing via the informal wool market. However, according to...
Farmer programme results in higher yields and better lives
...other farmers. Shuwisa admits that he faced difficulties during the recent drought, but saving money from every harvest helped him through this tough period. His savings have enabled him to...
Biodiversity: a valuable ally for the farmer
...to use forest extraction to offset the negative affect of droughts during growing seasons. In this way, they turned biodiversity into an effective insurance against drought and other weather-related shocks....
Empowerment trust banks on barley
...in 2014, while wheat yielded 2,84t/ha in 2015. Their malting barley is sold to AB InBev, which assists them with marketing their other crops. Addressing challenges According to Hans, drought,...
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