Department finalises over 6 000 fertiliser and farm feed applications
The Department of Agriculture responds to complaints related to its registration of pesticides, fertilisers, and farm feeds.
Bayer Brings Together AGRA, AU and FNB in High-Level Dialogue on Transforming Africa’s Food Systems
“Africa possesses the land, the youth, the creativity, and the resilience to feed itself and to help feed the world. What we do not have is time.”
SA seals key agricultural trade deal with Vietnam
The potential for expansion is “immense”.
Alignment to bolster industry growth
From the desk of the CEO of SA’s top agricultural export
Harvesting change: Shoprite’s R1-million food garden competition launches
Across South Africa, countless gardens tell stories of determination and hope.
Four guest judges set to join Shoprite’s Act for Change Food Garden Competition
The rise of community gardens in SA agriculture
The tobacco market has gone underground
The harder it is to supply a market legally, the bigger the incentive becomes for both buyers and sellers to trade under the counter.
Saai raises alarm over collapse of regulatory system for agricultural inputs
A regulatory vacuum puts the entire agricultural value chain – and with it the public’s access to safe, affordable food – in serious jeopardy.
Veggie burgers are back in the game!
A reasonable compromise between the meat industry and the plant-based industry?
The additional million farm jobs South Africa could have had
Much time has passed since 2012, when this figure was first published, and agriculture has created some employment, although not to the level the National Development Plan envisaged.