In a South African first, RSA Group, the country’s leading fresh produce sales agency, has expanded its food security accreditation at the Tshwane market to cover all its floors and product lines.
The Motsepe Foundation is continuing with its sustainable agriculture, land development and reform philanthropic projects and partnerships with kings, queens, traditional leaders and their communities and poor rural as well as urban communities in South Africa (“the Traditional Communities Partnership”).
The Department of Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has recently released the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for the final quarter of 2020, which offered a sobering overview of the year.
Wellington Sikuka drafted a response for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) titled “Mixed Reactions to the 2021 National Budget by the South African Agricultural Sector” (2 March 2021).
We’ve mentioned before that we get queries every week regarding one aspect or another of agriculture. These vary from the polite, sincere and well-thought out emails to the simple and abrupt.
Plans are in place that could see South Africa becoming a significant player in the farming and export of saffron. For the South African economy, this offers an invaluable source of foreign income from exports, whilst also assisting in establishing emerging, small-scale farmers.
A suite of camera traps supplied to WWF Conservation Champion farms in the Cape Winelands are revealing some surprise visitors – from leopards to aardwolf – and helping conservation-minded farmers better understand how to manage their veld.
