Tuesday, 12 January 2010 12:21
The New Agriculturist
Fines Mulindi, a smallscale farmer in Zambia's drought-prone Southern Province, steps carefully between neat rows of onions and okra ready for harvest. Tapping into the lucrative hotel catering supply chain, she has avoided a market dilemma facing millions of farmers across Africa - excessive supply of a few vegetables during certain seasons, leading to heart-breaking wastage and low prices. Backed by financial, educational and technological support, Mulindi is one of over 400 farmers supplying a wealthy neighbour: the five-star Royal Livingstone Hotel.
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:09
Business Report
Agricultural firm Afgri, which posted an operating profit of R1.2 billion in the 12 months to June, planned to retrench 13 percent of the staff in its financial unit, trade union Solidarity said yesterday.
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Thursday, 19 November 2009 10:28
Business Day
The absence of many world leaders undermined this week’s United Nations (UN) food summit from the start, and its final declaration shows that little progress was made in the fight against hunger.
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Monday, 16 November 2009 12:19
New Agriculturist
Drought once every ten years has been the expected norm in East Africa, but with a failure of rains over several seasons, it seems that drought is becoming an almost annual event. Rains have recently arrived in Kenya but the impact of the recent drought will continue to be felt for many months, if not years. In order to develop coping mechanisms for the future, pastoralists in the South Rift valley have undertaken a survey to better understand the impact of drought on their livestock, people, and the local economy.
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 10:52
Karen
Exciting news for South Africa’s agricultural sector is that Shell Lubricants has restructured its product distribution model and launched a campaign to assist the farming industry to become more productive, profitable and sustainable.
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Wednesday, 19 August 2009 10:21
Business Report
South Africa's agriculture, forestry and fisheries department is pledging to take over operational loans on farms of emerging black farmers who are "under distress" which amount to about 10 percent of the 283 farmers facing financial troubles as identified by the land bank.
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Monday, 13 July 2009 13:58
Business Day
The state-owned Land Bank's survival is threatened by bad debt according to a report in SAPA. It’s subsidising farmers who’ve failed to make a commercial go of their new ventures.
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Monday, 13 July 2009 13:25
The Times
South Africa’s R1-billion-a-year fruit export market is under threat from millions of diseased bees in the Western Cape.
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Monday, 29 June 2009 10:43
Soil Association
The Soil Association welcomes a new independent report by the University of Reading, funded by the Soil Association and an independent trust, which shows that organic farming has "much to offer" and "is, perhaps, mainstream agriculture in waiting."
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 07:58
Sapa
An insect pest that wrought havoc in the California fruit industry two decades ago has made its appearance in the Western Cape, a University of Stellenbosch entomologist announced on Tuesday.
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