Tag: Eastern Cape

A burning passion for education and agriculture made it easy for Evelyn Fisher to fulfil her aspirations in the form of an agri academy.

As Mzansi braces itself for winter to arrive in full force, the National Agro-meteorological Committee warns that farmers should be extra vigilant in order to protect their crops, grazing land ...

A major part of the citrus industry in the Eastern Cape is still at an impasse over a labour dispute that turned violent some weeks back. While evidence of sabotage ...

The High Court in Gqeberha has granted an interim interdict to farm owners in the Sundays River Valley Municipality, Eastern Cape, which prevents protesting workers and their supporters from coming ...

A hundred farmers from Zingquthu village in Komani, Eastern Cape, are overjoyed with the new shearing shed and equipment they received from rural development and agrarian reform MEC Nonkqubela Pieters.

In an update on locust outbreaks in the province, Western Cape minister of agriculture Dr Ivan Meyer said that authorities and farmers were gaining ground. But no one is prepared ...

An industry leader from the Eastern Cape has been elected chairman of the Citrus Growers Association. The citrus industry contributes billions to South African foreign exchange earnings and employs hundreds ...

Agri Eastern Cape has reacted with exasperation at a government decision to ground two helicopters spraying a locust outbreak - the largest on record. In some areas the insects are ...

Anele Mtshemla and Thabisa Moleshe from Wild Coast Foods are currently in Dubai for the Polish-African Business Forum, an international business event organised as part of Poland’s economic programme at ...

A very promising harvest could turn around the fortunes of two government-supported fruit farms in the Eastern Cape. The area has been hard hit by years of drought and other ...