Agriculture

Chicken industry supports traders and communities during lockdown

Across the country, chicken producers are helping informal traders to get back into business following changes to the coronavirus lockdown regulations. There...

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Climate Smart Agriculture: What CCARDESA would be doing for SADC region

Article by Simon Mwale In part 1 of this series of articles, I discussed the critical position that CCARDESA has taken in...

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Farmers not aware of maize ear rots reducing quality of grains

“Information will be available to South African maize producers to assist with cultivar choices in order to manage charcoal rot.”

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Proud product of Owen Sithole Agriculture College

I was born and bred in Umlazi and growing up in the township gave us little exposure to farming. Considering this now,...

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Bells of joy ring over new SA table grape

Meet Joybells…undoubtedly one of the most promising table grape varieties to emerge from South Africa. Joybells was developed from an open-pollinated variety,...

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ARC’s Nedambale innovation advances livestock reproduction

“The CASA provides automatic sperm motility and velocity rates analyses, and captures images previously only unattainable using a microscope” he said.

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Irrigation of table grapes under drought conditions

Over the past four decades, the Agricultural Research Council (ARC) has focused on developing irrigation strategies for table grapes. As parts of...

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UN Women calls for government and private sector to aid women in agriculture and agri-business

Poor access to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) Technologies and Inputs in South Africa thwarts the progress and productivity of women involved in agriculture....

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NERPO calls for consequence management against farmers who ignore Covid-19 regulations

The National Emergent Redmeat Producers Organisation (NERPO) has reacted with shock and disbelief following the report that there are some farm owners...