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Greatest AfricansAfricaEducationJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansThe global economy generally fell short of its forecasts, set to weaken to 2.6 percent this year, but in Sub-Saharan Africa, agriculture-dependent countries such as Benin, Rwanda, Cote d'Ivoire, and Uganda grew positively, according to t...
·almost 5 years ago
President Cyril Ramaphosa and Deputy President David Mabuza hreceived the report of the Presidential Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture yesterday. The panel was appointed in September 2018 to support the work of the Inter Min...
·almost 5 years ago
Over the past decade, agriculture and agro-processing exports have averaged 11% of the country’s overall exports, up from 9% in the decade before
·over 1 year ago
The first time Helene Mukayuhi saw small and remotely controlled devices hovering over her wheat plantation, she became nervous.She couldn't easily figure out the reason why drones had been deployed in their farmland."Honestly, I lost sl...
·almost 5 years ago
More than two million Kenyans are staring at food crisis in July as the effects of a drought that hit food production and led to increased prices continue to bite. This comes even as the country's grain reserves dwindle, with its less...
·almost 5 years ago
Digitisation could change the game for agriculture in Africa. That’s a key message in a report recently released by an international institution that enhances smallholder farming in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The Centre f...
·almost 5 years ago
Persistent unemployment has become synonymous with the youth experience across South Africa. Youth unemployment rates are almost four times higher than the regional average – 62% of South Africans between 15 and 35 years are unemployed a...
·almost 5 years ago
Maize is the cheapest source of calories among the cereal grains, making up about 65% of total food calories consumed by households in Kenya. To meet this demand, maize is produced on 40% of the total crop area – mainly by smallholders. ...
·almost 5 years ago
As the deadline for the post-Brexit trade talks between the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom (UK) looms, concerns have arisen as to whether the two parties will be able to conclude a deal. In terms of the Brexit divorce agreeme...
·over 3 years ago
Shea trees are grown widely in semi-arid parts of Africa for their fruit and seeds. From Senegal in the west to Uganda in the east, they are found in agro-forestry systems called parklands – landscapes where trees are left to grow in cu...
·over 3 years ago
Farming and agribusiness play a crucial role in sustaining the economies of small towns and rural areas. There is a lot of evidence of this in the economic literature and in the popular media. This dependency has its inherent risks. I...
·almost 3 years ago
Vegetable production, tomato production in particular, is an important source of income for many smallholder farmers in Zambia. It can provide them with gross margins that are much higher than maize, the dominant field crop. But these hi...
·over 3 years ago
Over half a million households in South Africa’s former homelands disengaged from farming between 2011 and 2016, according to Statistics South Africa. This represents a loss of one in five crop farming households. The former homelands...
·almost 5 years ago
Zimbabwe’s smallholder farmers in Chimanimani District are to be provided with an additional $600 000 to help them recover and rebuild their lives following March’s deadly Cyclone Idai which wrought massive destruction across Malawi, Moz...
·almost 5 years ago
“To date we have managed to clear more 300 of the 509 containers and we are processing clearance of the remaining containers"
·over 1 year ago
This is in light of the recently signed Agriculture and Agro – Processing Master Plan
·over 1 year ago
When South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, addressed the nation on July 12 amid violence and destruction of property in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng provinces, he warned of several risks if the situation was not resolved swift...
·almost 3 years ago
SA’s agricultural sector is finalising the sector master plan. The final consultations with constituencies of various social partners — comprising industry, government, labour and civil society — will soon begin, after which the maste...
·about 3 years ago
The country is battling the outbreaks of Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in provinces of Limpopo, Free-state, Northwest, KZN and Gauteng and this disease is concentrated in the farming and communal areas of these provinces
·over 1 year ago