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      • Organised Agriculture
    • Livestock
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      • Animal husbandry
      • Aquaculture
      • Beef Cattle Farming
      • Beekeeping
      • Dairy cattle farming
      • Dairy (goats and sheep)
      • Donkeys
      • Gamebirds and other poultry
      • Horses – the equine industry
      • Indigenous and locally developed breeds
      • Meat goats
      • Mohair (goats)
      • Mutton and lamb (sheep)
      • Ostriches
      • Pork and Pig Farming
      • Rabbits
      • Poultry and Chicken Farming
      • Speciality fibre production
      • Wildlife ranching
      • Wool (sheep)
    • Services and Technologies
      • Agricultural media & ICT
      • Aquaponics
      • Biotechnology and plant breeding
      • Conservation Agriculture
      • Consultants
      • Digital Agriculture
      • Drones
      • Fertigation
      • Food safety and traceability
      • Hydroponics and undercover growing
      • Laboratories and Agriculture
      • Legal aid and legislation
      • Mapping
      • Organic farming
      • Permaculture
      • Precision farming
      • Precision livestock farming (PLF)
      • Research and development
    • Marketing & Finance
      • Agribusiness
      • Agricultural shows and events
      • Co-operatives
      • Commodity trading
      • Exporting
      • Finance for new farmers and SMMEs
      • Fresh Produce Markets
      • Livestock auctions
      • Marketing
      • Providers of financial services
      • Risk management and insurance
      • Supply Chain Management
    • Adding Value
      • Abattoirs and the meat industry
      • Agro-processing
      • Baking
      • Canning and preserving
      • Dairy processing
      • Dried fruit
      • Essential oils
      • Fruit and vegetable juices
      • Hides, skins and leather
      • Hunting
      • Milling
      • Small and micro milling
      • Tourism and agriculture
      • Wood, pulp and paper
    • Natural Resource Management
      • Biodiversity and ecosystems services
      • Birds and farming
      • Conservancies and farming
      • Environmental legislation
      • Fire
      • Invasive alien species (IAS)
      • LandCare
      • Rangeland (veld)
      • Soils
      • Waste management
      • Weather and climate
      • Wetlands
      • Wildlife on farms
    • Farming Inputs
      • Animal feeds
      • Animal health
      • Biocontrol
      • Chemicals in agriculture
      • Compost and organic fertiliser
      • Crop protection
      • Earthworms and vermicompost
      • Fertiliser
      • Fuels and lubricants
      • Seeds and seedlings
      • Speciality fertilisers
    • Forestry and Industrial Crops
      • Bamboo Farming
      • Cannabis
      • Cassava
      • Chicory
      • Coffee
      • Cotton
      • Fibre crops
      • Forestry
      • Herbs and spices
      • Honeybush
      • Indigenous medicinal plants
      • Moringa
      • Rooibos (redbush)
      • Sugarcane
      • Tobacco
      • Wine and wine grapes
    • Horticulture
      • Berries and exotic fruit
      • Citrus Fruit
      • Cut flowers
      • Deciduous fruit
      • Floriculture and nursery crops
      • Fruit – general fruit chapter
      • Indigenous food crops
      • Macadamia nuts
      • Mushrooms and truffles
      • Olives
      • Subtropical fruit
      • Table grapes
      • Tree nuts
      • Vegetables
    • Agronomy
      • Barley
      • Canola (rapeseed)
      • Dry beans
      • Fodder crops
      • Groundnuts (peanuts)
      • Maize (corn)
      • Potatoes
      • Sorghum
      • Soybeans
      • Sunflower
      • Wheat
    • Mechanisation
      • Animal traction: the use of draught animal power
      • Forklifts, loaders and light industrial machines
      • Implements
      • Pumps and generators
      • Spare parts and fleet maintenance
      • Tractors, combines and balers
      • Trailers
      • Trucks and heavy machinery
      • Tyres
      • Vehicles – other
    • Farm Infrastructure
      • Boreholes and windmills
      • Building supplies and structures
      • Fencing
      • General farm equipment
      • Grain storage and handling
      • Irrigation
      • Natural building
      • Packaging and handling systems
      • Rainwater harvesting
      • Water storage
    • Issues Here and Beyond Our Borders
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      • Biosecurity
      • Climate change and global warming
      • Emerging farmer support
      • Energy
      • Fisheries and the ocean economy
      • Food security
      • Renewable and alternative energy
      • Rural Crime and Farm Safety
      • HIV and AIDS
      • Water
    • Education, Training and Careers
      • Agricultural education and training
      • Careers and employment in agriculture (Part 1)
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      • Careers and employment in agriculture (Part 3)
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  • Chapters
    • Introduction
      • Agriculture in the Provinces
      • Labour and agriculture
      • Organised Agriculture
    • Livestock
      • Animal improvement and breeders
      • Animal husbandry
      • Aquaculture
      • Beef Cattle Farming
      • Beekeeping
      • Dairy cattle farming
      • Dairy (goats and sheep)
      • Donkeys
      • Gamebirds and other poultry
      • Horses – the equine industry
      • Indigenous and locally developed breeds
      • Meat goats
      • Mohair (goats)
      • Mutton and lamb (sheep)
      • Ostriches
      • Pork and Pig Farming
      • Rabbits
      • Poultry and Chicken Farming
      • Speciality fibre production
      • Wildlife ranching
      • Wool (sheep)
    • Services and Technologies
      • Agricultural media & ICT
      • Aquaponics
      • Biotechnology and plant breeding
      • Conservation Agriculture
      • Consultants
      • Digital Agriculture
      • Drones
      • Fertigation
      • Food safety and traceability
      • Hydroponics and undercover growing
      • Laboratories and Agriculture
      • Legal aid and legislation
      • Mapping
      • Organic farming
      • Permaculture
      • Precision farming
      • Precision livestock farming (PLF)
      • Research and development
    • Marketing & Finance
      • Agribusiness
      • Agricultural shows and events
      • Co-operatives
      • Commodity trading
      • Exporting
      • Finance for new farmers and SMMEs
      • Fresh Produce Markets
      • Livestock auctions
      • Marketing
      • Providers of financial services
      • Risk management and insurance
      • Supply Chain Management
    • Adding Value
      • Abattoirs and the meat industry
      • Agro-processing
      • Baking
      • Canning and preserving
      • Dairy processing
      • Dried fruit
      • Essential oils
      • Fruit and vegetable juices
      • Hides, skins and leather
      • Hunting
      • Milling
      • Small and micro milling
      • Tourism and agriculture
      • Wood, pulp and paper
    • Natural Resource Management
      • Biodiversity and ecosystems services
      • Birds and farming
      • Conservancies and farming
      • Environmental legislation
      • Fire
      • Invasive alien species (IAS)
      • LandCare
      • Rangeland (veld)
      • Soils
      • Waste management
      • Weather and climate
      • Wetlands
      • Wildlife on farms
    • Farming Inputs
      • Animal feeds
      • Animal health
      • Biocontrol
      • Chemicals in agriculture
      • Compost and organic fertiliser
      • Crop protection
      • Earthworms and vermicompost
      • Fertiliser
      • Fuels and lubricants
      • Seeds and seedlings
      • Speciality fertilisers
    • Forestry and Industrial Crops
      • Bamboo Farming
      • Cannabis
      • Cassava
      • Chicory
      • Coffee
      • Cotton
      • Fibre crops
      • Forestry
      • Herbs and spices
      • Honeybush
      • Indigenous medicinal plants
      • Moringa
      • Rooibos (redbush)
      • Sugarcane
      • Tobacco
      • Wine and wine grapes
    • Horticulture
      • Berries and exotic fruit
      • Citrus Fruit
      • Cut flowers
      • Deciduous fruit
      • Floriculture and nursery crops
      • Fruit – general fruit chapter
      • Indigenous food crops
      • Macadamia nuts
      • Mushrooms and truffles
      • Olives
      • Subtropical fruit
      • Table grapes
      • Tree nuts
      • Vegetables
    • Agronomy
      • Barley
      • Canola (rapeseed)
      • Dry beans
      • Fodder crops
      • Groundnuts (peanuts)
      • Maize (corn)
      • Potatoes
      • Sorghum
      • Soybeans
      • Sunflower
      • Wheat
    • Mechanisation
      • Animal traction: the use of draught animal power
      • Forklifts, loaders and light industrial machines
      • Implements
      • Pumps and generators
      • Spare parts and fleet maintenance
      • Tractors, combines and balers
      • Trailers
      • Trucks and heavy machinery
      • Tyres
      • Vehicles – other
    • Farm Infrastructure
      • Boreholes and windmills
      • Building supplies and structures
      • Fencing
      • General farm equipment
      • Grain storage and handling
      • Irrigation
      • Natural building
      • Packaging and handling systems
      • Rainwater harvesting
      • Water storage
    • Issues Here and Beyond Our Borders
      • AgriBEE
      • Biosecurity
      • Climate change and global warming
      • Emerging farmer support
      • Energy
      • Fisheries and the ocean economy
      • Food security
      • Renewable and alternative energy
      • Rural Crime and Farm Safety
      • HIV and AIDS
      • Water
    • Education, Training and Careers
      • Agricultural education and training
      • Careers and employment in agriculture (Part 1)
      • Careers and employment in agriculture (Part 2)
      • Careers and employment in agriculture (Part 3)
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 Gardeners in South Africa may hesitate to use greywater – but it can be a crop saver
By Craig Macaskill
In Blog
Posted 2022-06-24

Gardeners in South Africa may hesitate to use greywater – but it can be a crop saver

After three consecutive dry winters from 2015 to 2017, “Day Zero” – when the taps would run dry – loomed large for the South African city of Cape Town and its surrounds in 2018.

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 Rising food prices hit poor people the hardest: a close look at inflation in South Africa
By Craig Macaskill
In Blog
Posted 2022-06-17

Rising food prices hit poor people the hardest: a close look at inflation in South Africa

Concerns about rising food prices are making the headlines across the world as pressures mount in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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 Is going off grid SA’s biggest energy myth?
By Craig Macaskill
In Blog
Posted 2022-06-08

Is going off grid SA’s biggest energy myth?

Eskom’s load shedding schedule for the next six months indicates that businesses across the country can expect a significant amount of downtime over the coming months, with two months of planned [...]

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 Celebrating a decade of Journey of Water
By Craig Macaskill
In Blog
Posted 2022-06-02

Celebrating a decade of Journey of Water

Since 2013, WWF South Africa has been taking influential South Africans on a Journey of Water through some of the country’s key water catchments to highlight the importance of a healthy natural [...]

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 Fairplay Movement calls on chicken importers to reveal profits
By Craig Macaskill
In Blog
Posted 2022-06-01

Fairplay Movement calls on chicken importers to reveal profits

FairPlay has challenged chicken importers to reveal their “substantial” profits and to say how much they have invested in expanding their industry and creating local jobs in South Africa

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