Tag: smallholder farmers

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 ...

Sinelizwi Fakade has seen both sides of the efforts by the state and the commercial farming sector to develop smallholder farmers into small-scale commercial producers. Duncan Masiwa gets his unique ...

Livestock farmers Athenkosi Denga and Soyama Mtongana are used to having the ground shaken beneath their feet by herds of cattle. But what these two young farmers have not adapted ...

A new guide to the production of free-range beef is set to give smallholder farmers access to an exclusive and very valuable market, supplying one of the country’s major supermarket ...

Microsoft South Africa has announced it will be investing up to R40 million into the South African agricultural landscape. The capital injection is aimed at driving sustainability in the sector ...

With the application deadline now fast approaching, chief director for farmer support and development in the Western Cape, Jerry Aries, urges up-and-coming farmers to avoid common application mistakes in their ...