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Growers optimistic about 2024/2025 stone fruit exports

Growers optimistic about 2024/2025 stone fruit exports

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COP29: AI can help develop climate-resistant crops for Africa – but it shouldn’t be left in the hands of corporates

COP29: AI can help develop climate-resistant crops for Africa – but it shouldn’t be left in the hands of corporates

Muhammad Nakhooda 6 hours

Sappi, Agricolleges International partner for forestry education

Sappi, Agricolleges International partner for forestry education

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Africa’s battle against food waste: How interventions can save 30% of produce

Africa’s battle against food waste: How interventions can save 30% of produce

31 Oct 2024

The avocados arrived on 22 October 2024. Source: Supplied.

Westfalia Fruit's avocados make historic first arrival in India

30 Oct 2024

Astral Foods predicts profit as bird flu outbreak, power cuts subside

Astral Foods predicts profit as bird flu outbreak, power cuts subside

30 Oct 2024

John Hudson, Head of Agriculture, Nedbank Commercial Banking

It’s time to give agriculture the recognition it deserves

John Hudson 30 Oct 2024

AI in agriculture: Will it close or widen the gender gap?

AI in agriculture: Will it close or widen the gender gap?

Wambui Kuria and Niharika Agarwal 29 Oct 2024

How Cape Town port's inefficiencies are costing the agriculture industry

29 Oct 2024

Forestry’s role in advancing South Africa’s sustainable development goals

Forestry’s role in advancing South Africa’s sustainable development goals

Dr Ronald Heath 29 Oct 2024

Food inflation steady at 40.1% in September, but monthly pressures persist

Food inflation steady at 40.1% in September, but monthly pressures persist

Paul Makube 29 Oct 2024

4 provinces declared free from foot and mouth disease

4 provinces declared free from foot and mouth disease

28 Oct 2024

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African Agri Investment Indaba targets transformative change in agriculture sector

7 Oct 2024

Source: Reuters

Cameroon farmers turn to vigilantes and amulets to stop cocoa theft

Amindeh Blaise Atabong 2 Oct 2024

2024 Äänit Prize winners Chido Dzinotyiwei (left) and Ismail Dumutu (right) with Judy Sikuza, CEO of the Mandela Rhodes Foundation (middle) (Image supplied)

Mandela Rhodes Foundation 2024 Äänit Prize winners announced

18 Sep 2024

A farmer tends to dried cannabis bundle in Ketama, in the northern Rif mountains, Morocco, 12 March 2021. Reuters/Stringer/File Photo

Morocco pardons nearly 5,000 cannabis farming convicts

Ahmed Eljechtimi 21 Aug 2024

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Sappi, Agricolleges International partner for forestry education

Sappi, Agricolleges International partner for forestry education

3 days

Africa’s battle against food waste: How interventions can save 30% of produce

Africa’s battle against food waste: How interventions can save 30% of produce

31 Oct 2024

The avocados arrived on 22 October 2024. Source: Supplied.

Westfalia Fruit's avocados make historic first arrival in India

30 Oct 2024

Astral Foods predicts profit as bird flu outbreak, power cuts subside

Astral Foods predicts profit as bird flu outbreak, power cuts subside

30 Oct 2024

John Hudson, Head of Agriculture, Nedbank Commercial Banking

It’s time to give agriculture the recognition it deserves

John Hudson 30 Oct 2024

AI in agriculture: Will it close or widen the gender gap?

AI in agriculture: Will it close or widen the gender gap?

Wambui Kuria and Niharika Agarwal 29 Oct 2024

How Cape Town port's inefficiencies are costing the agriculture industry

29 Oct 2024

Forestry’s role in advancing South Africa’s sustainable development goals

Forestry’s role in advancing South Africa’s sustainable development goals

Dr Ronald Heath 29 Oct 2024

Food inflation steady at 40.1% in September, but monthly pressures persist

Food inflation steady at 40.1% in September, but monthly pressures persist

Paul Makube 29 Oct 2024

4 provinces declared free from foot and mouth disease

4 provinces declared free from foot and mouth disease

28 Oct 2024

Sapa calls for VAT-free chicken to boost food security

25 Oct 2024

Weather shifts and monetary relief drive optimism for South Africa's farmers

Weather shifts and monetary relief drive optimism for South Africa's farmers

Gilberto Biacuana and Karabo Mabuza 24 Oct 2024

South Africa must push agricultural exports within Brics

South Africa must push agricultural exports within Brics

Wandile Sihlobo 23 Oct 2024

Woolworths partners with 6 local wine brands to launch exclusive canned wine range

Woolworths partners with 6 local wine brands to launch exclusive canned wine range

22 Oct 2024

Tech, viticulture, and research drive SA wine industry

Tech, viticulture, and research drive SA wine industry

21 Oct 2024

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Eastern Cape R80m programme to tackle poverty, malnutrition

17 Oct 2024

2025 Best of Wine Tourism and Ambassador Award winners announced

2025 Best of Wine Tourism and Ambassador Award winners announced

17 Oct 2024

2024 Absa Top 10 olive oil winners revealed

2024 Absa Top 10 olive oil winners revealed

17 Oct 2024

Shoprite publishes South African Food Security Index 2024

Shoprite publishes South African Food Security Index 2024

16 Oct 2024

Source: Land Bank.

Land Bank kicks off SA's first index insurance

16 Oct 2024

Rainbow Chicken supports FAO’s 2024 World Food Day Poster Contest initiative

Rainbow Chicken supports FAO’s 2024 World Food Day Poster Contest initiative

Rainbow Chicken 16 Oct 2024

South African vineyards set for a promising 2025

South African vineyards set for a promising 2025

16 Oct 2024

Waterberg Boerdery and Yellow Door Energy inaugurate solar and battery energy storage system

Waterberg Boerdery and Yellow Door Energy inaugurate solar and battery energy storage system

Yellow Door Energy 14 Oct 2024

OFM – proudly agri

OFM – proudly agri

OFM Radio 14 Oct 2024

Diners Club reveals finalists for 2024 winemaker awards

Diners Club reveals finalists for 2024 winemaker awards

14 Oct 2024

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Climate resilience key to securing South Africa’s food supply

11 Oct 2024

Groot Phesantekraal relaunches eatery, led by chef Germaine Esau

Groot Phesantekraal relaunches eatery, led by chef Germaine Esau

10 Oct 2024

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FAO: September sees biggest food price hike in 18 months

9 Oct 2024

Technology and sustainable farming can contain the cost-price squeeze

Technology and sustainable farming can contain the cost-price squeeze

John Hudson 9 Oct 2024

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Madagascar’s mining rush has caused no more deforestation than farming – new study

Katie Devenish 8 Oct 2024

Janelle Simons is one of ten small-scale farmers who grows vegetables on a piece of municipal land in Oranjeville, Citrusdal. For the past two winters, they have not been able to grow and sell their crop because their gardens were flooded. Photos: Ashraf Hendricks

Citrusdal farmers devastated by two years of floods

8 Oct 2024

Greg Talbot, CEO of Tal-Tec. Source: Supplied.

Celebrating 50 years of Tal-Tec: The evolution of livestock handling

4 Oct 2024

Source: Reuters

Black South African olive oil producer calls for more state support

Sisipho Skweyiya and Tannur Anders 3 Oct 2024

Education is key as momentum shifts in SA's cannabis industry

Education is key as momentum shifts in SA's cannabis industry

The Gordon Institute of Business Science 3 Oct 2024

While warmer weather might seem beneficial for crops like grapes, which can thrive in higher temperatures, the implications are more complex. Archive photo supplied.

How climate change threatens South Africa’s wine industry

Cole Potgieter, Aisling de Lange and Neil Thomas Stacey 2 Oct 2024

SA's wine industry gains momentum with local and international demand

SA's wine industry gains momentum with local and international demand

1 Oct 2024

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Nominations open for boards of PIC, Sasria and Land Bank

1 Oct 2024

Land Bank's R1.2bn solution to transforming South Africa's agriculture

30 Sep 2024