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Has agriculture in SA seen the last of the current El Niño cycle?
Has agriculture in SA seen the last of the current El Niño cycle?
Below average rainfall experienced for the last four years had a devastating effect on... read



Africa Month
Simon Andys
#AfricaMonth: Adopting a new mentality to small-scale farming

Cari Van Wyk

It's necessary for smallholder farmers in Africa to innovate and form partnerships with organisations that can help them do so. In this, the farmers of Nakuru county has... read
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It's going to get hellishly hot soon

Shaun Smillie

Across Africa, heat waves that are today considered unusual could become a normal occurrence within the next two decades... read
Agribusiness
Astral Foods' HI profits slide as drought bites
Astral Foods' HI profits slide as drought bites

Andries Mahlangu

Astral Foods reported a slide in its first-half profit as the effect of the recent drought in the country took hold. Grain prices, notably maize, shot up... read
Agri Tech
Tru-Cape invests in new technologies for higher sorting intelligence
Tru-Cape invests in new technologies for higher sorting intelligence
In an effort to deliver better quality fruit to consumers, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing and its parent packhouse Two-a-Day, have invested in new technologies to improve their... read
Agro-processing
Farmers must plan for veld fire risk during dry winter months
Farmers must plan for veld fire risk during dry winter months
It has never been more important to put measures in place to protect farms against veld fires. Farmers have exhausted most of their resources... read
Commercial Fishing
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Oceana expects Daybrook to deliver earnings kick

Marc Hasenfuss

Oceana Group is confident of a strong earnings kick in the financial year to end-September from recently acquired Daybrook Fisheries... read
Commodities & Fairtrade
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Wool market is 6,5% higher
The wool market traded 6,5% higher this week and the Cape Wools Merino Indicator increased by 996 points to close at a value of R163,06 (Clean)... read
Discussing sustainable certification with SA's first Fairtrade coffee roaster
Discussing sustainable certification with SA's first Fairtrade coffee roaster

Cari Van Wyk

Fairtrade SA recently hosted a topical discussion on sustainable certification in South Africa. We spoke to one of the panelists, Jonathan Robinson, director of Bean There Coffee... read
Food Security
Is food security and tobacco growing incompatible in Africa?
Is food security and tobacco growing incompatible in Africa?

Reuben Maigwa

The SADC Regional Vulnerability Assessment estimates that an alarming 16% of the region's population are food insecure... read
Africa
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Growing bamboo market in Africa

Zipporah Musau

Bamboo: Africa's untapped potential resource for economic growth... read
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Business
#InTouch2016: Survival strategy for the digital future
#InTouch2016: Survival strategy for the digital future

Lauren Hartzenberg

The key problem in business is that while technology changes, business processes don't... read
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