Tag: Farmsol

Former financial advisor Happy Letsitsa caught the farming bug from his clients. Today, he is a farmer in his own right and offers opportunities for agriculture students to gain work ...

In this moving piece, Magnificent Mndebele and photographer Funiwe Ngwenya reflect on the life of one of South Africa’s oldest farmers who died at 96. Mahlomelane Mthembu defied all odds ...

Smallholder farmers need to embrace the latest mechanisation technology to leap from subsistence and small-scale farming into commercial farming. The latest, biggest mechanisation is not an ultimate requirement or a ...

At Food for Mzansi, we know Njabula Mbokane as the “fish and chips” farmer, a label in which she takes great pride. Before she won the 2019 SAB-FarmSol Young Emerging ...

On today's podcast, we discuss why sandy soil is best for rooibos tea farming. We also unpack the role of women in agriculture.

Aron Kole, managing director of farmer development company FarmSol, believes that agriculture is true wealth, not just because of what you can gain from it, but what you’re able to ...

In the push for producing as high a yield as possible, farmers often lose focus on what that production is costing them. For smallholder farmers, the cost of producing a ...

Every Friday, we feature one of the rising farm stars participating in the FarmSol Youth Ambassador programme. This week, we travel to the Free State to meet father-and-son team Lehotla ...

Eric Mauwane, a vegetable farmer from Gauteng, lost everything on what was described as the coldest night in Mzansi this year. A heartbroken Mauwane tells us, “Everything is gone. The ...

The United Nations Food Summit is taking place in New York in September 2021, with pre-summit events and dialogues having been held since the start of the year. The purpose of ...