Tag: Agri Western Cape

As Mzansi prepared to listen to finance minister Enoch Godongwana's first budget speech, the vote was unanimous throughout the agricultural sector: the country needs infrastructure investment from its government.

In this week's podcast, Jacqui Taylor, CEO of Agritourism South Africa, says that more action is needed to advance agritourism and rural tourism in the country.

Following countless, urgent requests from farmers across the country, a drought disaster was declared for three provinces. While this unlock some financial support for suffering farmers, some are doubting whether ...

An alarming decline in Mzansi’s livestock numbers could be a key reason why consumers are having to pay more for meat products than they have in years. This is the ...

A fruit farmer from the Witzenberg Valley, Alexander Gibson, walked away with top honours at Agri Western Cape and Santam Agriculture’s Young Farmer of the Year awards last night. Gibson ...

While farmers across the country are heaving a sigh of relief following much-needed rain, some Free State farming communities are suffering severe damage to property and crops. Free State Agriculture ...

Partnerships in agriculture are more important than ever, pleaded the outgoing Agri Western Cape president Cornie Swart at the organisation’s annual congress. Speaking during a virtual broadcast, in the wake ...

Today the world marks International Day of Rural Women with a special focus on building rural women’s resilience in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic. Food For Mzansi also tracks ...

Agri Western Cape has issued an urgent appeal to producers in the north of the country to donate maize to support desperate farmers in the most drought-stricken areas of the ...

The recent spike in farm attacks and murders are not as racially motivated as "right-wing narrative groups" might suggest, warns Constitutional law expert prof. Elmien du Plessis. As hundreds of ...