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Minimum wage 'hurt' farm workers
Farmers responded to the hefty increase in the minimum wage in 2013 by reducing permanent employment, cutting working hours, moving workers off farms... read more>>



Agriculture
Land reform - let's stay out of the boxing ring
SA's land reform debacle could destroy everything achieved since 1994, warns communications expert, Prof David Venter... read more>>
Attacks on farm workers increasing
A total of 15 murders were reported on farms in the Free State in the first six months on 2015. Ten of these victims were farm workers... read more>>
Agri SA welcomes release of ILO Report
Recently completed, the objective information gather by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) research study into the living and working conditions of farmworkers... read more>>
Commodities & Fairtrade
Anger as airline lifts ban on hunting trophies
Animal welfare activists on Thursday decried a decision by South Africa's national air carrier to reverse a ban on the transportation of hunting trophies... read more>>
NSPCA calls for stop to live export
Two "consignments" of animals recently departed for Mauritius on the Holstein Express and so the cruel export of live animals for slaughter from South Africa continues... read more>>
SA lemon exports to EU stopped due to CBS
The SA citrus industry has decided to proactively suspend exports of organic lemons to the EU... read more>>
Sustainability
Policy poisons farming
The government's failure to assist farmers by not providing competitive subsidies is forcing workers off the land and is putting increased pressure... read more>>
Mobile survey informs Global Entrepreneurship Summit
GeoPoll the Global Entrepreneurship Network and the U.S. State Department released a survey of 1,000 business owners... read more>>
International
GLOBALG.A.P. updates farm and feed standards and regulations
Following a four-year routine cycle of continuous improvement, the GLOBALG.A.P Board has announced the introduction of the update to Version 5... read more>>
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