Tag: smallholder farmers

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 ...

Despite cannabis being deeply rooted in indigenous culture in South Africa, activists are worried that 'anti-poor' licensing regulations will exclude rural and small-scale farmers from the country's so-called green rush.

Despite it being almost 100 000 farmers strong, the department of agriculture, land reform and rural development’s new farmer database is an ongoing project and farmers who are not on ...

The Galloway family created their Eastern Cape homestead as an off-the-grid retreat from where they practice and teach ecologically sustainable farming and living in harmony with nature.

2021 was a tough year for Western Cape farmer Anastasia Smith. She lost both her mother and brother and her lease was on the line after pushback from the community. ...

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 ...

Harvesting has commenced in many of the cotton production areas in Mzansi, and the CEO of Cotton SA, Hennie Bruwer, says the scene is set for a good ginning season. ...

Developing a sustainable agriculture sector means growing both the farm and the farmer, writes head of the Jobs Fund Najwah Allie-Edries, the same level of effort put into the crops must also ...

Farmers have been warned to brace themselves for a period of rapidly increasing animal feed and production costs, with the prices of some animal feed commodities at all-time record highs. ...

If you’ve been paying attention, you might have noticed that the past few months have seen record-high prices of immune boosting foods such as garlic and ginger. Garlic prices on ...