200-YEAR-OLD BOTTLE OF GRAND CONSTANCE BREAKS ALL EXPECTATIONS ON RARE WINE AUCTION
An extremely rare bottle of 1821 Grand Constance fetched nearly half a million rand at the Cape Fine and Rare Wine Auction…
Fruit industry strengthened by new SU Research Chair for Dr Elke Crouch
Leaders in the South African fruit industry believe that the creation of the new Post-Harvest Physiology Research Chair in Deciduous…
Developing a business plan to assist in the development of Livestock Identification and Traceability System
South Africa has a long history of managing animal diseases efficiently and has maintained disease-free zones for several high impact…
Botswana suspends some SA animal, meat imports
Botswana said on Monday it had banned imports of cloven-hoofed animals and their fresh products from South Africa after an…
FMD outbreak detected in KwaZulu-Natal
According to a media release by the Minister of Agriculture (DALRRD), another outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), has, this time,…
Food inflation fuelling rising inflation figures
Statistics South Africa recently announced that inflation was 4.4% for April, a 1.2% increase from March. Inflation on food and…
Report: Gender-responsive research key to farm productivity, tackling Africa’s agricultural threats
The African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (Award) has released a report highlighting how gender-responsive agricultural research and development…
A New Chance for Genetically Engineered Crops
German Agriculture Minister Julia Kloeckner has welcomed the possibility of looser restrictions on genetically engineered crops as an “overdue modernization”…
AGCO Africa skills programme to tackle youth unemployment
AGCO Africa has announced that it will be providing a fully funded year-long programme called African Agribusiness Qualification (AAQ) that…
What the much-anticipated AfCFTA will mean for SA’s beef industry
Designed to boost intra-African trade through reduced or zeroed tariffs, the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) will, in regard…
