Tag: Agricultural Research Council

The agriculture sector could benefit from solar thermal technologies as a strategy to resolve the energy crisis and reduce CO₂ emissions.

Four years in, Mashudu Thobakgale's mixed farming operation is not yet profitable, but this telecommunications professional is determined to build the side hustle as his kids' inheritance.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Dr Ilse Trautmann has been appointed as deputy director-general for agricultural research and regulatory services in the Western Cape department of agriculture. She is the ...

It looks like a wasp but buzzes like a bee... How can the creepy little critter called black soldier fly benefit farmers? Quite a lot, it seems, as it has ...

Dr Jakkie du Toit, founder of the renowned National Master Dairyman Awards, may be leaving the dairy industry after more than four decades, but his door is still open to ...

A Free State farmer, Nompe Zim, dedicated her ARC National Small-Scale Master Dairyman of the Year award to her father, Jan, who passed away last year. Zim received the prestigious ...

In a collaboration project between the Agricultural Research Council and the department of agriculture, land reform and rural development, researchers identified and interviewed 100 farmers who are regarded as champion ...

North West has become the latest province to set its sights on building a cannabis economy. This industry is expected to bring in billions for South Africa, and the North ...

At the age of nine, Boitumelo Mhlanga from Roodeplaat in Pretoria already knew how to process maize into maize meal and flour. It was a skill passed on to her ...

Livestock farmers are dependent on grasslands as grazing for their animals. Yet grasslands are increasingly vulnerable to encroachment by bigger, woody plants. Preliminary results by ARC researchers indicate these woody ...