It is crucial that food producers find ways to support growth while minimising their environmental impact and adapting to disruptions in the food supply chain brought on by climate change.
The Wine Farmer platform aims to help sell surplus wine (a result of the lockdown ban), maintain employment, keep farmers on their farms and salvage the region’s economy.
A 34-year-old from Benoni shares her knowledge with the community on how to grow their own food in a bid to address challenges of poverty and unemployment.
Stock theft costs farmers over R1 billion every year, and another story around this depressing theme was not going to be a priority that morning, but the story is an encouraging one …
Last week the Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development (DALRRD) announced that members of the public will be able to apply to lease 700 000 hectares of underutilized or vacant state land in seven of the provinces.
The National Commissioner of the South African Police, General Khehla John Sitole together with other senior officers engaged in a meeting with Agri SA, TLU SA and AfriForum in Pretoria this morning in an effort to address matters of criminality affecting the rural communities.
Both our “Dairy cattle farming” and “Dairy processing” pages were updated at the end of September with information from the Milk Producers Organisation (MPO) biannual Lacto Data. We wanted to share some points of interest on South Africa’s dairy sector.
