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Africa's food market may be worth US$1trillion in 15 years
Africa's food market may be worth US$1trillion in 15 years
Africa's agricultural productivity has long lagged behind the rest of the world... read
Agriculture
Africa's largest Agri Investment Indaba is now underway
Africa's largest Agri Investment Indaba is now underway

Issued by African Agri Council

Projects to the combined value of over US$1bn are vying for the attention of international investors attending the African Agri Investment Indaba 2016 taking place in Cape Town from 28-30 November... read
Agribusiness
Good news and bad for local poultry industry
Good news and bad for local poultry industry

Ann Crotty

The good news for the poultry industry is that the worst of the drought is over. The not-so-good news is that the full benefits may take another six months to materialise... read
SA agribusiness: looking ahead to 2017
SA agribusiness: looking ahead to 2017
As predicted, 2016 has been an extremely challenging and tumultuous year for the agribusiness environment and farmers alike... read
Cape Town to host inaugural Wine and Olive Oil Suppliers Expo in 2017
Cape Town to host inaugural Wine and Olive Oil Suppliers Expo in 2017
The newly launched Wine and Olive Oil Suppliers Expo will bring wine and olive oil production and supply into the spotlight in Cape Town at the CTICC from 24-26 October 2017... read
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Sovereign to ditch BEE plans

Ann Crotty

Thirteen months after it first proposed the creation of a controversial black economic empowerment (BEE) scheme, Sovereign Foods has told shareholders it has decided to abandon the plan... read
Wine farm wage deal
Wine farm wage deal

Robertson Winery and the Commercial, Stevedoring

Farm workers struck a sweet deal after a bitter battle over wages with a top wine producer... read
Agri Tech
FAO launches enhanced database for easy access to food and agriculture data
FAO launches enhanced database for easy access to food and agriculture data
FAO has launched a new and revamped FAOSTAT website - the most comprehensive statistical database on food, agriculture, fisheries, forestry, natural resources management and nutrition... read
Robotics: Here to Stay
Robotics: Here to Stay
It is estimated 15,000 dairy farms across the world milk with robotics, with most herd sizes ranging from 50 to 250 cows... read
Agro-processing
Winter cereal production estimates increase despite late planting
Winter cereal production estimates increase despite late planting

Neels Blom

The commercial production of winter cereals for 2016's past season is now expected to be greater than forecast a month ago... read
#SharetheBay: There's a rich history behind SA's 'diamond fibre' industry
#SharetheBay: There's a rich history behind SA's 'diamond fibre' industry

Sindy Peters

Did you know that South Africa's Eastern Cape is the mohair capital of the world? I didn't, until yesterday that is when we visited the Mohair South Africa headquarters in PE on a tour... read
Commercial Fishing
W Cape small-scale fishers' deadline extended
W Cape small-scale fishers' deadline extended
The Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries has extended the Western Cape communities' deadline for their registration on the provisional list of small-scale fishers... read
Fertilisers & GMOs
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Fertiliser plant in the offing near Saldanha

Allan Seccombe

Kropz, which has Patrice Motsepe's Ubuntu-Botho Community Development Trust as its empowerment partner, must still raise R10bn to build the plant... read
Forestry
Forest Enterprise Simulator app to assist emerging forestry entrepreneurs
Forest Enterprise Simulator app to assist emerging forestry entrepreneurs
The Forest Sector Innovation Fund has developed an innovative decision-making support tool for small scale forestry entrepreneurs and larger, existing timber growers... read

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International
The berry of the future is fed a specialised diet and picked by a robot
The berry of the future is fed a specialised diet and picked by a robot
On a wall at the Watsonville, California, headquarters of Driscoll's Inc., the nearly $3 billion global berry brand, dozens of little green trucks move about on a large screen with a map of the US... read
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Business
PSD2 will send ripples through banking world
PSD2 will send ripples through banking world
The European banking sector is bracing itself for massive change now that PSD2 legislation has been passed... read
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