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These blogs contain agricultural related information and written by our editor Craig Macaskill as well as guest columnists from time to time.
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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.
Citrus industry welcomes US tariff exemption on oranges
An announcement which takes some pressure off citrus farmers and workers
What will it take to make Africa food secure?
G20 group points to trade, resilient supply chains and sustainable farming