Agriculture

Spread of locusts: Drones are now becoming unavoidable for farmers

As a swarm of locusts gear to devastate SADC country crops, sophisticated technology debates were becoming unavoidable. Government’s recent response to the...

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Agriculture’s 3rd quarter 2020 GDP outcomes still impressive

South Africa’s agriculture GDP still came out impressive in the 3rd quarter 2020 at 18.5% quarter-on-quarter (q/q) seasonally adjusted annualised with a...

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KZN DARD rolls out R57.2m Farmer Support Package (FSP)

Kwazulu-Natal MEC for DARD, Bongiwe Sithole-Moloi says the launch of the Farmer Support Package (FSP), which offers tractors, implements, fertilizer, seeds and...

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World Soil Day 2020: Our soils are our future

World Soil Day is an initiative started a few years ago by the International Union of Soil Sciences, and supported and promoted...

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Subsistence producers invited to apply for farming input vouchers

The Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza (MP), is pleased to announce that from 10 to 22 December...

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CRLR: Backlog of 6000 land claims

Parliament’s portfolio committee on agriculture, land reform and rural development, heard on first account challenges gripping the Commission on Restitution of Land...

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NERPO mourns death of its longest serving chairperson, Paradise Mahlangu

The National Emergent Redmeat Producers Organisation (NERPO) mourns the death of one of its longest serving Chairpersons, Dingane Paradise Mahlangu, who passed...

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Minister Didiza announces outbreak of locusts in various provinces

The Minister of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development, Thoko Didiza has announces that the country is currently experiencing outbreaks of locusts...