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Entrepreneurial dreamers battle in #YouthStartCT competition's final rounds

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial dreamers battle in #YouthStartCT competition's final rounds

20 Feb 2025

SA fruit industry launches pest monitoring centre

Agriculture

SA fruit industry launches pest monitoring centre

3 Dec 2024

SA’s canola harvest reaches record levels in 2024

Agro-processing

SA’s canola harvest reaches record levels in 2024

22 Nov 2024

Janelle Simons is one of ten small-scale farmers who grows vegetables on a piece of municipal land in Oranjeville, Citrusdal. For the past two winters, they have not been able to grow and sell their crop because their gardens were flooded. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks

Agriculture

Citrusdal farmers devastated by two years of floods

8 Oct 2024

Agriculture

African Agri Investment Indaba targets transformative change in agriculture sector

7 Oct 2024

Source: Reuters

Agriculture

Black South African olive oil producer calls for more state support

Sisipho Skweyiya and Tannur Anders 3 Oct 2024

Boosting food security: Eastern Cape's new rural hubs initiative

Agriculture

Boosting food security: Eastern Cape's new rural hubs initiative

11 Sep 2024

Mogale Maleka: Leading the way in water-efficient farming as a GoGettaz finalist

Agriculture

Mogale Maleka: Leading the way in water-efficient farming as a GoGettaz finalist

Robin Fredericks 8 Aug 2024

Ivorian farmers boost rice yields with new crop

Agro-processing

Ivorian farmers boost rice yields with new crop

Loucoumane Coulibaly 2 Aug 2024

City of Cape Town opens annual #YouthStartCT to youth entrepreneurs

Community

City of Cape Town opens annual #YouthStartCT to youth entrepreneurs

15 Feb 2024

Diesel rebate policy 'too selective', ignores broader food industry value chain - Fasa

Franchising

Diesel rebate policy 'too selective', ignores broader food industry value chain - Fasa

28 Mar 2023

Mongezi Veti, Exxaro Resources executive head of sustainability

Mining

Mining and agriculture: Could repurposed farmland help create jobs at scale?

Mongezi Veti 19 Oct 2020

Sustainable Farming

A look at sustainable farming trends in South Africa

Claudi Nortjé 12 Feb 2020

Farming in South Africa is under threat from climate change. Here's how

Sustainable Farming

Farming in South Africa is under threat from climate change. Here's how

13 Nov 2019

Smallholder crop farming is on the decline in South Africa. Why it matters

Agro-processing

Smallholder crop farming is on the decline in South Africa. Why it matters

Charlie Shackleton 4 Jul 2019

How over-regulation, lack of understanding cause poverty and lack of transformation

Agriculture

How over-regulation, lack of understanding cause poverty and lack of transformation

Peter Oberem 23 May 2019

AFT Fund to launch 17 new projects in support of agribusiness in Africa

Agriculture

AFT Fund to launch 17 new projects in support of agribusiness in Africa

12 Apr 2019

Impimpi Alive - whistleblowing system for minimum wage defaulters

Labour Law & Unions

Impimpi Alive - whistleblowing system for minimum wage defaulters

Jacques van Wyk 10 Apr 2019

Tanzanian farmers don't vaccinate against foot and mouth disease. Here's why

Agro-processing

Tanzanian farmers don't vaccinate against foot and mouth disease. Here's why

Ashley Railey 22 Mar 2019

Agribusiness

Status report: FMD outbreak

15 Mar 2019

Agritech Expo Zambia 2019 announces AgriTeach programme lineup

Agri Tech

Agritech Expo Zambia 2019 announces AgriTeach programme lineup

15 Mar 2019

Stellenbosch University's agriculture initiative to aid Malawi farming community

Agriculture

Stellenbosch University's agriculture initiative to aid Malawi farming community

1 Mar 2019

Carbon farming: How agriculture can both feed people and fight climate change

Sustainable Farming

Carbon farming: How agriculture can both feed people and fight climate change

27 Feb 2019

Agriculture

FMD spill-over contained

Marike Brits 5 Feb 2019

Agriculture

NW MEC commits to addressing farmers' challenges

17 Jan 2019

Agriculture

Future Farmers expands to Paarl

14 Jan 2019

A motorcyclist has his vehicle loaded with hands of matoke - ©Panos

Agriculture

Q&A: Transforming agriculture with tech scale-up

Baraka Rateng' 8 Jan 2019

Can South Africa's sorghum industry be revived?

Agro-processing

Can South Africa's sorghum industry be revived?

Wandile Sihlobo 2 Jan 2019

Kruisfontein celebrates first embryo calves

Agro-processing

Kruisfontein celebrates first embryo calves

27 Dec 2018

Turning around the failure of South Africa's land reform projects

Agribusiness

Turning around the failure of South Africa's land reform projects

Cyril Nhlanhla Mbatha 1 Oct 2018

SA drought conditions still of concern for Agri SA

Agribusiness

SA drought conditions still of concern for Agri SA

7 Sep 2018

SA ag economy enters recession

Agribusiness

SA ag economy enters recession

5 Sep 2018

Research identifies plant disease impact on Africa's food crop

Agriculture

Research identifies plant disease impact on Africa's food crop

3 Aug 2018

Masisizane Fund's Harvest Day emphasise benefits of agricultural investment

Agriculture

Masisizane Fund's Harvest Day emphasise benefits of agricultural investment

1 Aug 2018

Ghana's Complete Farmer launches web farming platform

Agri Tech

Ghana's Complete Farmer launches web farming platform

Tom Jackson 24 Jul 2018

Climate change initiative to strengthen forest, farming communities

Forestry

Climate change initiative to strengthen forest, farming communities

23 Jul 2018

Farmers curb crime with technology

Agri Tech

Farmers curb crime with technology

13 Jul 2018

Consider integrated farming - Makgato

Agriculture

Consider integrated farming - Makgato

Irene Kgakgamatso 28 Jun 2018

President Museveni urges investors to plant solar pumps for agriculture

Agro-processing

President Museveni urges investors to plant solar pumps for agriculture

John Green 12 Jun 2018

Agriculture

New app uLima will optimise the farming potential of Africa

1 Jun 2018

Peatuce simplifies farming operations, improves food trade in Africa

Agriculture

Peatuce simplifies farming operations, improves food trade in Africa

29 May 2018

Photo by Scott Goodwill on

Agriculture

We know how food production needs to change if crisis is to be avoided - so why isn't this happening?

Nina Moeller & Michel Pimbert 27 Mar 2018

Jklaasen via - Goats and sheep leaving a kraal in Namaqualand

Agriculture

Equipping farming communities for environmental stewardship

13 Mar 2018

Photo by Aaron Burden on

Agriculture

Embattled bees face yet another potential threat - virus-carrying hoverflies

Emily Bailes 13 Mar 2018

Agriculture

Organic farming matters - just not in the way you think

Verena Seufert, Navin Ramankutty 13 Oct 2017

Pictured from left to right: Simon Mwangi, CEO/Founder The Bridge Africa Group Ltd, Kenya; AGCO’s Nuradin Osman; Dr George Njenga, Dean, Strathmore Business School and Dr Andy Wilcox, Head of Crop and Environment Science, Harper Adams University, UK. (Image Source: AGCO Corporation)

Agriculture

New training programme to help fill vital management roles in African agriculture

2 Oct 2017

Africa among high rainfall-related soil erosion zones

Agriculture

Africa among high rainfall-related soil erosion zones

Madhukara Putty 23 Aug 2017

Profitability the prerequisite for sustainable agricultural production

Agriculture

Profitability the prerequisite for sustainable agricultural production

17 Aug 2017

Kate HoltAusAID via

Agriculture

'Recovery lending' helps disaster-stricken farmers get back on track

Robert Kibet 16 Aug 2017

With more than one crop, farmers weather armyworm attacks

Agriculture

With more than one crop, farmers weather armyworm attacks

Kagondu Njagi 2 Aug 2017