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Industry leaders wishes for farming in 2020
...Agbiz: “It has not been an easy year for the broader agriculture and agribusiness sector, with many headwinds in the form of droughts and other severe weather phenomena, policy uncertainty...
SA leads in sub-Saharan African food security index
...above. READ How Free State maize farmer survived the drought These were presence and quality of food safety net programmes (100); nutritional standards (100); change in average food costs (97);...
Slightly larger wine grape harvest expected in 2020
...wine grape growing areas had experienced a good season, with the exception of widespread frost damage in the Northern Cape, and ongoing drought conditions in the Klein Karoo, he said....
Call for banks to support farmers this planting season
...in the western Free State were entering their fifth consecutive drought as this area had received very little rain so far this season. He added that the downpours that had...
Agriculture a vital part of the solution to land degradation
...area of drylands in drought increased, on average, by slightly more than 1% a year. Desertification hotspots, identified by a decline in vegetation between the 1980s and 2000s, extended to...
24-hour support line for Northern Cape drought victims
...relentless drought in the province. READ Why more and more farmers struggle with depression The objective of the service was to offer support to anybody traumatised by the drought, Reverend...
Tough times need tougher cattle
This year will be remembered by many in Southern Africa as an extremely demanding year for the livestock industry. It started off with the perfect storm: an ongoing drought, a...
How to sell careers in agriculture to millennials
...strains of plants that are resistant to drought and pests. The small-scale and subsistence farming sector has by and large been left behind. In what way can young people get...
Time for government to do as it says
...second major outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease of the year, and the effects of a prolonged drought. Due to these disasters, we will lose farmers. In some areas, livestock and crop...
Drought conditions likely to persist despite recent rain
...said. Henning Myburgh, general manager of Agri Northern Cape, said recent rainfall in this critically drought-stricken province had been sporadic and insufficient to break the drought. “We’ve had below-average rainfall...
Cold-pressed sunflower oil: a hot new product
...seed back from Senwes at the Safex price,” explains Homsek. He adds that drought and high Safex prices have placed pressure on the business, and they are investigating ways to...
Agribusiness confidence drops for sixth consecutive quarter
...“The negative impact of the drought should, for example, not be underestimated in the ‘overall’ index, but it could be far less [important] in a Western Cape-based index.” Moreover, the...
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