The who’s who of dairy specialists in the country recently convened in Durbanville for the judging of the 190th edition of the biggest and oldest dairy competition in Africa, the South African Dairy Championships. A total of 929 products from 71 South African dairy producers rivalled for the attention of eighty judges over two days, ...

High-level discussions come hard on the heels of South Africa hosting the African Free Trade and Investment conference in Cape Town The South African and Namibian fruit export sectors have for many years argued that the development of port infrastructure in Namibia and regular shipping opportunities from those ports would go a long way to ...

ANALYSIS Tony Carnie Something very odd seems to be happening in the Southern Ocean, that vast body of cold sea water surrounding Antarctica which absorbs heat and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. A new research project led by ocean scientists in South Africa suggests that there has been a significant, five-fold increase in “iron stress” ...

24 April 2023: Land Reform – Opinions vary on the shortcomings of the land reform programme in South Africa. Arguably, the government could have made significant progress towards its transformation agenda if it had vigorously implemented its various policies and relevant land-related legislation on the land reform programme. Peter Setou, Chief Executive of the Vumelana ...

image/ pixabay The Western Cape Department of Agriculture (WCDoA) and Potatoes SA have embarked on a strategic partnership by signing a three-year Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen the potato industry, stimulate economic growth, and create new job opportunities, according to a news release by the South African Government News Agency. As South Africa’s most ...

South Africa’s corn crop looks headed for a bumper harvest for a fourth year in a row after overcoming the season’s early wet start. A solid corn crop for the country would be good news across southern Africa since South Africa is the continent’s largest corn producer and one of its major grain exporters. Neighboring ...

This agricultural production is largely reliant on the effort and output of smallholder and subsistence farmers, who produce as much as 80% of the food in sub-Saharan Africa according to the World Food Programme. Unfortunately, these farmers face a wide range of challenges. Research from a Vodacom commissioned Africa.connected policy paper highlights that smallholder farmers ...

BLT WORLD specialists work in conjunction with the global ScrapeTec team, to offer dependable solutions for specific problems at the transfer points of conveyor systems in many industries where dust and material spillage are concerns, including the sugar sector “The risk of explosions caused by sugar dust emissions on conveyor belts in sugar production is ...

SKF is a deep-rooted, dependable partner to South Africa’s agricultural industry. The organisation incorporates decades of experience and know-how within this sector in its development of leading-edge agri-specific products and technologies that optimise the performance and reliability of farm machinery. This will be SKF’s tenth year at the annual Nampo Agricultural Trade Show which takes ...

Africa’s demand for South African agricultural products will likely increase in the 2023/24 marketing year, says Wandile Sihlobo, chief economist at the Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz). The 2023/24 marketing year corresponded with the 2022/23 production season. In the previous season, countries such as Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Tanzania had decent supplies of grains and other foodstuffs ...