Tag: Agriculture

Entry into the sector remains highly technical and capital-intensive, requiring specialised skills, regulatory compliance and significant operational resources

Farmers are turning to silage-making to cut feed costs, save time during dry seasons and improve livestock productivity using locally available crops

Emerging commercial farmer Realeboga Mangwegape has highlighted the need for inclusivity for entrepreneurs with disabilities ahead of President Cyril Ramaphosa's SONA on Thursday, “I think the President should help us ...

Small livestock farmers in several provinces say ongoing foot-and-mouth disease controls are continuing to erode their income, weeks after the festive season demand that many rely on to stabilise their ...

Uncertainty around the availability of United States chicken imports has raised concern among South African poultry farmers, many of whom say small retailers and informal traders have started making more ...

Mpho Ramovha, a smallholder farmer in Ngovhela village near Thohoyandou, tends 16 litchi trees in his backyard. He harvests what he can and sells mostly in his village and also ...

The wool market has become a lifeline for many rural based Eastern Cape sheep farmers - providing income that helps them expand their farming operations. Khayelethu Batayi, a sheep farmer ...

Farmers are under growing pressure to produce more food with less water as climate change intensifies across South Africa. To adapt, many are turning to climate-smart agriculture (CSA) , a ...

Sugarcane farmers are resorting to mechanising operations by using gadgets such as drones in a bid to reduce labour and other costs as cheap imports continue to take the sweetness ...

As South Africa prepares for the summer agricultural season, experts are warning small farmers and producers to prepare for the potential impacts of a weak La Niña weather pattern, expected ...