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How IT can attract young people to African agri sector

This emerged during panel discussions at the EU-Africa Business Forum 2017, recently held in Côte d’Ivoire. The theme of the forum was “Creating jobs...

Tech innovation helps farmers with climate-smart transition

According to Euronews, the aim of the project was to provide these enterprises with the newest insights into best practices and technological advances by adapting...

Huge expectations from the State of the Nation Address

Christo van der Rheede, executive director of Agri SA, told Farmer’s Weekly that the only way to guarantee food security in South Africa would be through...

Irrigated wheat: Conservation farming improves water usage and yield

Egon Zunckel and his sons, Tyson and Carl, have been implementing conservation agriculture practices, especially no-till, on their farm’s commercial mixed grains operation since...

Irrigated wheat: Conservation farming improves water usage and yield

Egon Zunckel and his sons, Tyson and Carl, have been implementing conservation agriculture practices, especially no-till, on their farm’s commercial mixed grains operation since...

New irrigation systems: making do with less

Irrigation supports 25% to 30% of national agricultural production in South Africa. Although irrigated agriculture uses 62% of the available water resources in South...

Medium-term budget: Dismay about lack of assistance for farmers

During his Medium-Term Budget Policy Statement delivered on Wednesday (27 October), the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana announced that government planned to increase spending...

Agri sector outlook cautiously optimistic, despite challenges’

This was according to Dr Piet Croucamp, political analyst at the North-West University Business School, who said the global decline in demand for agricultural...

‘SA well-positioned to become leader in cannabis production

Murphy said regulatory progress made in the past five years had allowed South Africa to catch up with other countries that had legalised cannabis...

Water rights litigation creates uncertainty for SA farmers

The recent Constitutional Court decision on the transferability and trading of water rights will create uncertainty and erode investor confidence in the agricultural sector,...

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