Tag: Farmer’s Podcast

Dr Hlami Ngwenya, our guest on the Farmer’s Inside Track agriculture podcast this week, says more needs to be done to free women in farming. We also unpack citrus exporting.

Since April 2019, South Africa had 102 African Swine Fever (ASF) outbreaks. Dr Dorothea Mostert, a production consultant from CS Vet veterinary production consultancy, says that ASF poses a significant ...

For small-scale farmers in rural communities, access to primary animal healthcare can be limited. This leaves their livestock at the risk of reduced production or even death. AfriVet director Vuyo Makapela, speaking on the Farmer’s Inside Track ...

When Zimbabwe suspended maize imports from South Africa on 20 May 2021, it came as a shock to the local industry. In the marketing year prior to the ban, Zimbabwe ...

In the past few months more and more black farmers have spoken up about being evicted by Government from land on which they were farming, often very successfully. The question is, are there ...

Statistics South Africa’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the fourth quarter of 2020 paints a gloomy picture related to the country's unemployment status.  This week, Agri SA labour specialist Lebohang Sethusha joins Farmer's Inside ...

Mzansi’s financial year is off to a rocky start with an expected inflation hike. While the inflation outlook remains at 3.5%, FNB-Agribusiness says things could most likely change.   The 2020 ...

In a joint venture between the department of trade and industry and the industrial development corporation (IDC), agriculture minister Thoko Didiza recently relaunched the Agri-Industrial Fund.  “The fund’s objective is to support the development and expansion of ...

Mzansi is fast becoming a significant player in the farming and export of saffron – by far the world’s most expensive spice. After years of perfecting the art of saffron cultivation ...

Nourishing Africa has a series of agribusiness-related webinars coming up that are free and full of valuable information. Did you read our ‘10 farming ideas that will be lucrative in 2021’ ...