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| The Land Bank has signed a R900m term loan facility, secured through KfW. The funds are earmarked for agricultural development and will supplement the Land Bank's sources of transformational and development funding...read |
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Prof Charlie Reinhardt Many leading South African farming entities share the common sentiment that agricultural colleges are no longer delivering well-rounded, technically skilled professionals...read | 
Zimbabwe has announced that white farmers still in business after controversial land reforms will be able to obtain 99-year leases, signalling a new government approach to the key agricultural sector...read |
| | |  | Victor Kiprop East African countries are leading in implementing Africa's agricultural transformation policies. According to a report on the Malabo declaration, Southern Africa comes second... read | |  | A dialogue on current revisions to SA's Plant Breeders' Rights Act and Plant Improvement Act raised concerns about the exclusive commercial focus of the Acts and the marginalising impact they have on farmer seed systems and on agricultural biodiversity... read | | |  | Amanda Ramcharan Cassava is vulnerable to viruses and other plant diseases. A lack of infrastructure and engagement by trained plant disease experts with farmers means the farmers are not trained to recognise them in their early stages. That's why we set out to create a disease-recognition app... read | | |  | With over 720 laboratory-confirmed cases of food poisoning caused by Listeria in 2017, South Africa is in dire need of a food control agency which can better manage the threat... read | | |  | Fisheries management play an important role in reducing hunger and poverty as well as creating jobs and sustainable growth in the southern African region... read | | |  | Ursula Human Although the most common grains consumed globally are wheat, maize, oats and rice, ancient grains are making a comeback... read | |  | Following a better-than-expected harvest, the 2017/2018 marketing season should end with record inventory levels for wheat and maize... read | |  | Tim Chesire As the United Kingdom and the European Union finalise on the withdrawal of the former from the bloc, where will the UK turn to replace the market it will lose from the Eurozone? read | | |  | Dubbed 'water factories', wetlands are the most biologically diverse of all ecosystems. The forestry industry regards looking after the land on which trees are farmed as a business, social and environmental imperative... read | | |  | Due to a decline in agricultural water usage, Day Zero has been pushed back to mid-May 2018. Agricultural usage is likely to drop significantly over the next weeks... read | | | |
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