Tag: Wandile Sihlobo

Over the next few days, over 400 delegates will attend the annual Agbiz congress at Sun City. CEO Theo Boshoff is grateful for a full schedule of industry leaders to ...

China has removed the last hurdle for its farmers to grow genetically modified crops. Leading agricultural economist Wandile Sihlobo writes how this could impact not only South Africa's maize-exporting farmers, ...

Confidence within Mzansi's farming and agribusiness industry is down once again. But the decline slowed down considerably and farmers are still generally positive, according to the Agbiz/IDC Agribusiness Confidence Index.

In case you missed it: We now have the trade data for the first quarter of 2022 and year-on-year exports went up by a mere 1%. Taking into account what ...

Recent years have seen countries ranging from Vietnam and Kazakhstan to India and Indonesia ban exports of key commodities to protect their domestic markets during global crises. Agbiz chief economist ...

With no sign of the pressure on the world economy from inflation and the Russia-Ukraine war abating, farmers are going to have to find ways to cut their costs under ...

It's Freedom Day. As the country commemorates this important day in the history of South Africa, black farmers tell Food For Mzansi despite their resolve, hard work and perseverance, that ...

Red meat prices might go down in the next few months while poultry prices might rise. But price trends in Mzansi's meat industry are uncertain, says Agbiz chief economist Wandile ...

Sales of tractors and combine harvesters were strong in March, thanks to local and international conditions favouring grain and oilseed farmers. However, the Russia-Ukraine war looks set to put a ...

Stats SA has released its employment figures for the last quarter of 2021. While overall job stats were up from the previous year, skilled employment was still down more than ...