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Subsidies can support food production during COVID-19 crisis

Africa is coming up with its own solutions to the challenges posed by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, according to a statement by the...

Africa agripreneur competition to award two US$50 000 prizes

Applications are now open for the second annual GoGettaz Agripreneur Prize Competition. Generation Africa, which launched the competition in 2019, provided support to young entrepreneurs...

Lockdowns must not disrupt food supply chains – FAO, AU

With statistics prior to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic suggesting that one in five people in Africa suffers from hunger, it is important that...

Lettuce: Meet the salad kings of SA

Not knowing what to do after finishing his military service back in the 1970s, Michael Kaplan set off to work on a kibbutz in...

Family farm harvests 50t of carrots a day all year round

Johannes Griesel has been producing carrots on the farm Wilson’s Fort in the Bainsvlei area of Bloemfontein for the past 25 years. He started...

How Free State maize farmer survived the drought

Maize producer AC van Wyk does his job well. So well, in fact, that he has grown the area under maize on his farm...

Smarter ways to irrigate sugar cane

When irrigation water is very scarce, do you (a) spread the limited water as widely as possible over your sugar cane lands to ensure...

Cucumber farming: volume and quality trump shrinking margins

Springveg Farms is one of the three largest cucumber producers in the Eastern Cape. It supplies supermarket chains and markets across the country with...

Addressing the risk of polluted irrigation water

Many of South African rivers from which water is drawn for agricultural irrigation purposes are carrying extraordinarily high pathogenic loads. Produce irrigated using this...

The Sandveld’s 75t/day family potato business

Sandberg farm lies in the heart of the Sandveld, between Elands Bay and Graafwater. In the Laubscher family since 1869, the farm is currently...

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