17 Sep 2013

Agriculture, Horticulture & Forestry

Avoid bad BEE practices

Whether one likes it or not, laws applicable to BEE are in place, and in this article Deon Oberholzer shows you the 10 bad BEE practices that could result in you losing your business.

This must be the only country in the world with a so-called "strike season" - so it's no surprise to learn that the new tyre manufacturing industry negotiations deadlocked.

Doesn't anyone seem to realise that a strike is the last resort, not among the first?

Some might think, with good reason, that this country is becoming a nanny state, and others might be in total agreement with the proposed ban, but in the meantime, the alcohol industry is demanding a say on the bill banning alcohol advertising.

Come on, admit it... our taxis are among our favourite road-users... NOT! So here's a heady little tale of the taxi that shocked police officers.

Rod Baker, Content Director

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Crunch time for fruit exports
After 23 years in SA's R6bn fruit industry, many of them as managing director of Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing - SA's biggest producer of apples and pears - Charles Hughes is retiring without having fulfilled his ambition of gaining access to China's vast market. He blames it on the SA government. Read more >>
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US agri-trade delegation to visit SA
The US trade mission will meet top South African and pan-African buyers and potential agents, distributors and business partners in a series of business-to-business meetings in Sandton, Johannesburg from 17-19 September 2013, with a view to opening new bilateral trade opportunities. Read more >>



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Agriculture
Quick meals for Africa
[Zeenat Moorad] In SA, Famous Brands produces 265,000 cups of specially blended coffee a day. With 2,175 restaurants, the company, whose brands include Wimpy, Steers and Mugg & Bean, also makes 77m ice-cream cones a year. It's the big daddy of SA franchising, with a R9,7bn market capitalisation, and it wants to repeat its local success in the rest of Africa. Read more >>


Commodities & Fairtrade
Grain prices lower after USDA crop report surprise
[Helmo Preuss] Grain futures closed mostly lower on last week after the key US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) crop report on surprised the markets with an increase in the forecast. Read more >>



Maize slips‚ wheat mixed as summer rains awaited
[Helmo Preuss] Maize prices slipped‚ while wheat futures were mixed as the grains market waited for the first summer rain to fall. Read more >>


Sustainability & Organic Farming
African green revolution depends on financing
A green revolution cannot materialise in Africa without a major concerted effort to secure financing for agricultural production. This was the message from the African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF) which ended on 6 September in Maputo, capital of Mozambique. Read more >>


International

Practical approaches on how to tackle the global waste problem
[Alan Kahn] Centuries of being wasteful and not being resourceful have had a severe impact on the environment, but since we cannot go back in the past to correct our mistakes... Read more >>


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