Advanced food processing technologies could make the food industry more sustainable
Globally we lose or waste just over a third of the food we produce every year.
The Agriculture and Agro-processing Master Plan needs a clear implementation plan
This month marks a year since South Africa’s Agriculture and Agro-processing Masterplan was completed and launched.
The dtic Relaunches Agro-Processing Scheme to Increase Uptake
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic) has relaunched the Agro-Processing Support Scheme (APSS) in order to increase the uptake of the incentive programme, which is aimed at stimulating investment by South African agro-processing enterprises.
Paying attention to agro-processing
By Craig Macaskill Posted 2018-07-11 In Blog For those who might have missed it, the Department of Trade and Industry’s 2018/19-2020/21 Industrial Action Policy Programme (IPAP) were announced at the end of last month. Some of the IPAP interventions have been met with remarkable success. In the leather and footwear sub-sector, for example, exports of leather and footwear […]
Agro-processing
Introduction The “Adding value” section of the Agribook website (of which this page is a part) deals with, well, adding value to the primary agricultural product. This finished product is what the consumer wants and pays money for. Because of this, farmers are often advised to be more involved in the activities that happen beyond […]