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These blogs contain agricultural related information and written by our editor Craig Macaskill as well as guest columnists from time to time.
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Singh calls for cultivation drive to protect medicinal plants
What to do when towns and cities want more of these plants than the wild can give?
President Ramaphosa calls for transformation of agricultural sector
Providing black farmers with title deeds, helping to build a new generation of commercial farmers and expand South Africa’s productive agricultural base …
Can livestock farmers and traders minimise loss of body mass and condition of animals being transported?
Practices which can significantly reduce body mass loss during transportation …
SA Canegrowers call on Minister Godongwana to scrap the sugar tax, protect jobs
The sugar industry is facing an unprecedented confluence of crises, that have left growers and the million livelihoods who depend on them on the brink of financial disaster.
El Niño could test more than crops – the contractual risks farmers need to know
El Niño serves as an important reminder that climate risk and contractual risk are becoming increasingly intertwined in the agricultural sector.
President Ramaphosa calls for more Redlands-style agricultural enterprises
“We must take what works and scale it up.”