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AgriSETA Learner Connect: Meet an animal health specialist

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“I was born for agriculture. I can’t imagine myself in any other sector. This is my calling," says veterinarian Dr Princess Moswa-Kato (38). Growing...
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AgriSETA Learner Connect: Meet a citrus and table grapes product specialist

Staff Reporter -
It's been 26 years since Adriaan Badenhorst started working in the fruit industry, and he has no regrets. As a product specialist in citrus...
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AgriSETA Learner Connect: Meet a research scientist

Staff Reporter -
As a city boy, Dr Igshaan Samuels (41) never imagined a career in agriculture. A keen interest in the environment led to studies in...
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AgriSETA Learner Connect: Meet a fish farmer

Staff Reporter -
Leslie Ter Morshuizen (52) has always been passionate about fish. In fact, he was breeding goldfish and tilapia as a young boy on their...
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AgriSETA Learner Connect: Meet an agronomist

Staff Reporter -
In today's edition of AgriSETA Learner Connect we chat to the 27-year-old Lerato Botha. She is a fiery farmer and the CEO of Farmerlee...
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AgriSETA Learner Connect: Meet an agricultural technician

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The 30-year-old Gary Patience was destined to become a farmer. Having been raised in a farming family, it was only a matter of time...
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AgriSETA Learner Connect: Meet a horticulturist

Kyran Blaauw -
Deciding on a future career is probably one of most difficult things in your life as a high school learner. Some of you will...
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AgriSETA scales up sector skills through R147 m investment

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The National Development Plan (NDP) targets the creation of one million jobs by 2033 and AgriSETA intends to be a cog in the wheel...
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Employment and empowerment is real in the chicken industry

The FairPlay Movement -
Feathers are flying in the chicken industry with importers and local producers crossing swords over issues of pricing, consumer interests, employment and empowerment. FairPlay sides...
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Future Farmers opens international doors for aspiring young farmers

Dawn Noemdoe -
An award-winning dairy farmer in Howick, KwaZulu Natal has changed the lives of hundreds of aspiring young farmers in Mzansi. Through her Future Farmers...
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South African Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago has announced that the repo rate will remain unchanged at 3.5%. Photo: Leadership Conversations
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Steady interest rates ‘positive for agri in tough times’

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The agricultural sector has welcomed the South African Reserve Bank’s decision to keep the repo rate unchanged – a much-needed lifeline for farmers who...
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Meet the man behind Cape Town’s first sushi truck

Noluthando Ngcakani -
The global health crisis caused by Covid-19 was surely the spanner in the works that we never saw coming. With its continued devastation the battered...
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RECIPE: We’re making Japanese fried rice

Noluthando Ngcakani -
No, you do not need a Teppanyaki grill to whip up a bowl of Maruwaan Christians’ savoury Japanese fried rice. Make Christians’ yakimeshi, a rice...
Livestock farmers and game industries have until the end of June to comply with new biosecurity. Photo: Suplied/Pexels.
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New biosecurity rules: ‘Adhere or close down’

Duncan Masiwa -
South African livestock auctioneers and agents in the game farming industry are faced with new rules on how auction activities are to be conducted...
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3 things happening in agri today, 20 January 2021

Dona Van Eeden -
Today is an exciting day if you are in the Swellendam and Strydfontein areas to go to the production auctions held there. If you...

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