An alternative to Durban
The Citrus Growers Association of Southern Africa is looking at moving away from Durban to Cape Town as the export point for the country’s citrus, Landbouweekblad reports today.
The main obstacle for the smooth running of affairs at Durban is the maintenance of infrastructure (or lack thereof). It is no good that attention is given to it only once infrastructure breaks. Incomplete or broken electrical points, for example, are a challenge for the coldchain, and harbour cranes’ functionality are a source of frustration.
A reader from Limpopo writes in
We receive some ten emails a week from people looking for help on one agricultural issue or another. It was when we received two in succession about pigs that we decided to do an article.
New cabinet, cool heads?
The face of Thoko Didiza greeted anyone who opened the 2004/2005 National Agricultural Directory and its Afrikaans brother, the Nasionale Landbougids, our first agricultural publication. At that time Didiza was the Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs, a position she retained through two terms, from 1999 to 2006.
Veterinary services for the community
Student volunteers donating their free time in exchange for vital experience!
Agriculture has the solution to load shedding within a year
Agri SA’s members have the potential to supply the electricity needed to prevent future load shedding through solar power generation. There are already 500 applications for solar generation plants, that have the potential to contribute 1 400 MW to relieve strain on the grid. If the administration processes are streamlined, these 500 applications and others can be rolled out.
Our food system requires a radical overhaul – WWF report
By AgriBook Posted 2019-02-19 In Blog Cape Town (18 February 2019). We need a fundamental overhaul of our food system which, in its current form, is a threat to the environment and human health. This is the key message contained in a new WWF South Africa report titled “Agri-Food Systems: Facts and Futures” released today. The report notes that […]
Field trip to the Overberg
By Craig Macaskill Posted 2019-01-17 In Blog At the close of 2018, a delegation of journalists and writers travelled to the Western Cape to view the work the WWF-SA Nedbank Green Trust is supporting with landowners and communities in the Overberg. Our eight articles reporting on the trip are: 1) Setting the stage – putting the trip and role players […]
Understanding employment obligations and the law – immigrants in South Africa
By Craig Macaskill Posted 2018-09-06 In Blog By Kirsten Eiser, a Partner & Cherise Walker, a Candidate Attorney at Webber Wentzel Many people, throughout Africa, look at South Africa as a place which offers socio-economic opportunities; and as a result, it has become home to many inter-regional and inter-continental migrants seeking gainful employment. What many employers […]
Google searches and farm murders
By Craig Macaskill Posted 2018-08-31 In Blog We are working our way through the chapters of the Agri Handbook, doing a general check on links and updating information. This morning we picked up where we left off yesterday, the “Berries & exotic fruits” chapter. Subsequent to the 2011 edition we make only the occasional use of […]
Showing learners the way
By Craig Macaskill Posted 2018-08-03 In Blog The Koue Bokkeveld Training Centre newsletter contains news of an agricultural excursion for grade 12 learners from four schools: Iingcinga Zethu Secondary School, Skurweberg Sekondêr, Ceres Sekondêr and Wolseley Sekondêr. They were given a day’s practical demonstration of what studying agriculture involves. Photo used courtesy of Hortgro and the Koue Bokkeveld Training Centre Visits to […]