SA Canegrowers welcomes the recent disbursement of funding by the South African Sugar Association (SASA) flowing from the sugar industry’s commitment to transformation interventions under the rubric of SASA, as well as commitments under the Sugar Cane Value Chain Masterplan. More than R225 million was paid to small-scale growers at the end of January 2022....Read More
11 March 2021 – The South African agricultural sector has shown much resilience over the years, surviving droughts, diseases and sanitation issues. Despite the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown in SA, the agricultural sector has been a star performer shipping about R150 billion worth of produce in 2020 or 3% more than in the previous...Read More
Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural economist at FNB Agri-Business 30 January 2020 – The latest forecast released by South Africa’s Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) points to a somewhat optimistic outlook for the agricultural sector as seasonal conditions turned positive. The current estimates point to a sharp recovery in output of summer crops with the total maize...Read More
Female Farmers Win Top Agriculture Prize PELLA, NORTHERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA (August 30, 2018): INMED Partnerships for Children and INMED South Africa are pleased to announce that project beneficiary Pella Food Garden Cooperative was named Best Subsistence Producer by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries at this year’s annual Female Entrepreneur Awards. The group also was...Read More
From Elgin to Madrid: South Africa’s Appletiser wins over European market 30th July 2018, Johannesburg – Appletiser, South Africa’s home-grown lightly sparkling, apple juice brand is taking off in Spain, with new market launches set to follow across Western Europe and the Americas. The brand was acquired by the Coca-Cola Company a little over two years ago...Read More
The search for SA’s biggest pumpkin is on More than 50 pumpkin growers are getting ready to participate in the annual Giant Pumpkin Festival at the Heidelberg Showgrounds in the Western Cape on 23 and 24 March 2018. Often weighing in excess of 300kg, these giant pumpkins will compete to be crowned the 2018 champion...Read More
GENOEG IS GENOEG by Steuart Pennington Although I’m dressed in black, as is my wife and daughter, and although I live in an agricultural community in the KZN Midlands I feel, on this perfect summer’s day, somewhat removed from the agony of many of my compatriots as they gather to demonstrate the terrible violence perpetrated...Read More
Story Highlights Farmers take a “conservation” approach to land management, which involves limiting soil disturbance to build up nutrients in the ground and increase production Grain yields in South Africa have increased 120 percent over the past two decades Number of workers in agriculture fell 31 percent to 670,000 in 2014 from 969,000 in 2001...Read More
More than 60% of South Africa’s most valuable commercial fishery, the deep-sea trawling industry, is black-owned. This is one of the key findings of a study that has just been completed by the independent economic empowerment verification and research agency, Empowerdex. The finding is in sharp contrast with widely held opinion that the deep-sea trawling...Read More
The rural homelands are held in trust by tribal authorities and are not on the government policy radar screen as it focuses on dealing with white-owned commercial farms. Most rural South Africans still reside in such areas, and partnerships between locals and agri-business on the underutilized soil may provide an alternative to the ANC’s model....Read More
Steuart has done some 500 talks on South Africa’s progress since 1994 and SA’s prospects for the future’
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