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Covid-19: Fast food relief for dairy industry

Sinesipho Tom -
The reopening of food outlets is a great relief to the milk industry, especially to a number of mozzarella processors and farmers who are almost exclusively dependent on the fast...
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Farming communities in the rest of Africa disrupted by covid-19

Sinesipho Tom -
The covid-19 pandemic has destroyed the land rights and livelihoods of many people farming in rural communities across the African continent, and women are bearing the consequences of this pandemic, says ...
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Lockdown: ‘Let us hunt,’ plead game farmers

Duncan Masiwa -
The unprecedented challenges caused by the novel coronavirus have wreaked havoc throughout the entire wildlife industry. Without swift government intervention, game farmers are fearful...
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World Hunger Day: Children suffer most

Sinesipho Tom -
As the world marks the tenth annual World Hunger Day today and the United Nations World Food Programme predicts a worldwide hunger pandemic by the end of the...
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Covid-19: ‘Keep your house clean,’ farmer advises rural employers

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Some 330 kilometres from Cape Town lies the small hamlet of Koekenaap, a patchwork of farms where grapes, beetroot, pumpkin, beans, tomatoes, potatoes, and...
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Level 3 lockdown ‘risky for farming communities’

Team Food For Mzansi -
While many are celebrating the news that South Africa will soon move to level 3 of the covid-19 lockdown, a foremost infectious diseases physician...
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Lockdown level 3: SA wine prices set to drop

Sinesipho Tom -
The covid-19 pandemic has seen the demand for South Africa’s wine across the world decrease significantly, say players in the local wine industry.  The consumption of wines in restaurants...
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Witzenberg: Farming in a covid-19 hotspot

Sinesipho Tom -
The covid-19 pandemic has impacted farmers in the Witzenberg municipal area in many ways. But what farmers and agri-workers from this area can all...
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Fed-up farmers turn to Facebook to sell their produce

Duncan Masiwa -
Thousands of fed-up farmers, concerned that their enterprises would not survive a substantial decline in sales brought on by the covid-19 lockdown, have turned...
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Now is the time to buy red meat – if you can afford it

Conce Moraba & Karabo Takadi-Mabuza -
The global meat industry continues to feel covid-19's impact as global lockdown measures complicate trade prospects. Economic growth estimates for 2020 have been lowered, and...
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Young coffee roaster plans to uplift smallholder farmers in Mzansi and...

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At the beginning of 2007, Mhlengi Ngcobo was just another happy 13-year-old boy playing with his friends after school. Then suddenly he started getting...
Pictured: (from left) Thoko Didiza, minister of agriculture, land reform and rural development, Ferdi Meyer, director of the Bureau for Food and Agricultural Policy (center) and Anton Rabe, executive director of Hortgro.
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Three things happening in SA agriculture today, 10 July

Duncan Masiwa -
The agricultural master plan is in full swing and today vegetable industry stakeholders had the opportunity to give input. These are the top three...
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How to wash fruit, veggies to safeguard them from virus

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If you’re not already washing your fresh fruit and vegetables before consumption, you have got a problem. Two health experts, Andrea du Plessis and...
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Liewe Lulu: Is there a proposal on the horizon?

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South African craft brewer survey reveals the devastating impact of lockdown on the industry. Photo: unsplash.
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Drowning craft beer industry pleads for support from state

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Only 10% of South African craft brewers believe they will be able to continue trading in the near future if the current restrictions on...

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