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| A list of ten interesting and important agricultural research projects being started or completed in 2018...read |
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Frikkie Maré Consumer requests at food outlets travel back through the value chain to the producers of the necessary raw products, which will again go through new types of processing to reach the consumer at some point in the future...read | 
Results from ARC research have found that treated winery wastewater with chemical oxygen demand of less than 1,000 mg/L can be used for cash crop production, as it had no detrimental effect on the crop as well as the environment...read | 
Tom Jackson Nigerian startup Thrive Agric is using a crowdfunding platform to provide farmers with the finance they need to grow their businesses and offer ordinary people the chance to invest in agriculture...read |
| | |  | Rosemary Mirondo Tanzania - The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa has started an initiative to support 3.5 million small-scale farmers to sustainably transform their mode of farming to commercially viable and profitable... read | |  | Demand across the world for Farmer Field Schools are increasing due to their ability to help smallholder farmers cope with complex challenges... read | | |  | Marc Hasenfuss RCL Foods, the consumer brands conglomerate that owns poultry producer Rainbow Chickens, delivered a nourishing trading update... read | | |  | Due to the avian flu outbreak, farms affected have had to cull all birds and recall and destroy all eggs. The decline in the production of eggs and chickens has resulted in SA relying on imported chickens to meet demand... read | |  | Once a very small-volume crop in the Western Cape, cherries have more than quadrupled their export market share over the last four years and continue to show excellent potential as an alternative crop... read | | |  | Oserian Development Corporation has come up with a raft of measures aimed at maintaining production over a long period of time without compromising on natural systems or its responsibility to workers, suppliers and the local communities... read | |  | "The NAMC must step in to use its convening advantages to bring together agribusiness, the banking sector, academia, government and other stakeholders to deal with this serious matter." read | | |  | Held at Rustenberg Wine Estate in Stellenbosch, this year's Cape Wine Auction has raised R17.5m for education in the Cape winelands... read | | | |  | Before man-made climate change kicked in - and well before "Day Zero" in Cape Town, where taps may run dry in early May - the global water crisis was upon us... read | | | |
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