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.

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.

THE government took over a farm last week for the first time under a controversial new policy of taking back unproductive farms allocated to blacks as part of a land redistribution programme.

South Africa's R12.8 billion fruit industry is bracing for a possible invasion by a new strain of fruit fly that has spread across the continent in the past five years.

South African consumers should experience lower food inflation over the next few months, according to Arthur Kamp, an economist at Sanlam Investment Management.