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| | [Nume Ekeghe] A simple-to-use farm management app to help farmers manage both the day-to-day activities of the farm and even the business-side of their operations... read |
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Fourteen years ago, after Zimbabwe's President Mugabe seized white-owned farms in a controversial land reform programme, farmers took up an offer from the Kwara state government to take their skills to Nigeria... Read | Cari Coetzee Key speaker at Free State Agriculture's 2017 Congress, Nadia van der Colff, provided delegates with some interesting insight on the farm to fork trend and why farmers should stay on top of consumer trends... Read | Dangote Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Niger State government to establish a $450m state-of-art and fully integrated sugar complex... Read |
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| Vumelana launched the Vumelana Governance Awards in 2014 to incentivise and reward good corporate governance practices by communal land holding entities. The winners are.. read | | | "Each feedlot has different needs. Breed, weight, gender and numerous other factors can all influence the price - not only the price the feedlot is prepared to pay but also..." read | |
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| Renu MODI Sub-Saharan Africa has huge potential to become a global food basket, but it is far from being realised. India's “Green Revolution” could be a useful model if adapted to African conditions... read | | |
| Katelyn Faulkner, Brett Hurley & Mark Robertson Recently a number of alien species have spread extremely rapidly across the continent, posing a particularly high threat to food security and livelihoods... read | | |
| David Obura Declining health in Kenya's marine resources is evident in traditional small-scale fisheries, the growth in commercial fisheries, conflicts among fisher groups and in the increased use of gear such as... read | | |
| CNN Marketplace Africa correspondent Eleni Giokos and anchor Zain Asher explore the future of farming and sustainability in Africa... read | | |
| This year's Standard Bank/Chenin Blanc Top 10 Challenge attracted 136 entries. The five-member judging panel, tasting all submissions blind, short-listed 33 wines for consideration before deciding on the ten eventual winners. read | | | | Europe's contaminated egg scare, triggered by the presence of the insecticide fipronil in eggs, has cost Dutch poultry farmers at least €33m ($39m), according to a preliminary estimate... read | | More International | |
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| Kirsten Youens The fifth anniversary of the Marikana mine massacre on 16 August 2017 serves as a stark reminder that mining is a very dangerous industry to oppose... read | |
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