By :Wandile Sihlobo Agriculture is a vital sector of the economy. This explains why it earned special attention in the National Development Plan (NDP), with an entire chapter, Chapter Six, dedicated to it. Recently, there have also been pragmatic plans such as the Agriculture and Agro-processing Master Plan (AAMP) that set out practical steps to ...

Agricultural Business Chamber (Agbiz) chief economist Wandile Sihlobo said after a few years of solid activity, South Africa’s agricultural sector faced a daunting year ahead, and the index results reflected this. The Agbiz/IDC Agribusiness Confidence Index (ACI) was unchanged in the first quarter of this year after deteriorating by 10 points to 40 in the ...