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| The bird flu outbreak in South Africa has wiped out more than 15% of layer hens and with the resultant shortage of table eggs, comes the prospect of hefty price increases... read |
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 | If expropriation without compensation is allowed, it could endanger the faith banks place in the land as security and set into motion a chain-reaction that eventually leads to the ordinary consumer losing out... read | |  | Hamlet Hlomendlini The lack of stability, certainty, and good governance, all pre-requisites for business confidence, can have an enormous adverse impact on food security and the sustainability of the whole agricultural value chain... read | |  | We have to produce more food with less. This can only be done through innovation and technology in food production, but for many consumers and retailers, innovation and technology are misunderstood... read | |
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 | Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Zwane told Parliament that beleaguered auditing firm KPMG did not raise any concerns about impropriety related to a dairy project in Vrede... read | |  | Dangote Rice Limited has launched a multi-million naira Youth Farming Initiative set to engage unemployed Nigerian students in rice farming... read | | |
 | The local honey industry currently sees an average annual turnover of R3.2bn, however, this number could drastically increase given a proper business model and investments made.... read | |  | The drought has caused a 21% drop in the production of oranges - South Africa's most precious fruit export... read | | |
 | Neels Blom Although the state is meant to provide finance and support to emerging farmers through its recapitalisation and development programme, land reform failure is up to 90%... read | |  | Fusarium wilt poses a major risk to the production of bananas - the world's most traded fruit. With more than 400 million people relying on the fruit as a staple food or source of income, it could... read | |  | Millie Phiri, Sonia Naidoo, Nadia Ibraimo Various agricultural research institutions in Africa are currently carrying out research on orphan crops mainly to improve yields and controlling and lowering disease tolerance.... read | | |
 | A sharp increase in forest fires stoked record losses in global forest cover equivalent to the area of New Zealand in 2016, a Global Forest Watch report said on Monday, 23 October... read | | |
 | A group small-scale farmers in Mpumalanga and Limpopo participated in an agricultural upskill initiative which introduced them to tobacco farming and has seen significant changes in their lives... read | | |
 | Roland Peens A significant drop in yield on an already unprofitable model means the industry will take a serious hit in 2018. The lack of rain during winter has left vines across the Cape without the required water reserves... read | | |
 | Pollution claimed the lives of nine million people in 2015, one in every six deaths that year, according to a report published on Friday, 20 October... read | |
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