This week’s agriculture events include a livestock auction, a dairy herd webinar, an Instagram live session featuring a young farmer, and a webinar on lessons learned in farming. Add your event to the calendar by emailing info@foodformzansi.com
This youth-focused week of June is buzzing with exciting agriculture events to keep you educated and informed. Today we kickstart with a livestock auction in KwaZulu-Natal, followed by an exciting webinar on mycotoxins in dairy hosted by Food Focus.
On Wednesday Food For Mzansi hosts an #FFMLive on Instagram with Sinethemba Masinga, a young farmer from KZN. That same day offers a Food For Mzansi Gather To Grow session featuring more young, South African farmers.
On Thursday we get serious with the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference on agricultural negotiations happening in Geneva, Switzerland. On Friday, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization hosts an informative agri event you do not want to miss.
Monday, 13 June
KZN, ready, set, bid
Livestock agents and auctioneers are ready for your bids at the Lions River saleyard in Nottingham. Farmers can look forward to an exclusive entrance at noon for the auction of 130 Boran cattle. Organisers say the goal of this sale is to reduce the herd and acquire more robust cattle. Prior to the sale, all the cows will be tested for pregnancy.
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Tuesday, 14 June
Learn more about the risk of mycotoxins in dairy
Food Focus will host a webinar on mycotoxin in dairy. In large doses, mycotoxins can be the cause of health or production problems for your dairy herd. This webinar will focus on, what mycotoxins are and what causes them.
Feed and crop management is vital to control mycotoxin contamination in feed given to lactating cows, heifers and especially calves.
Mycotoxins have a detrimental effect on dairy cows and aflatoxins included in dairy products pose a threat to human health.
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Wednesday, 15 June
#FFMLive on Instagram!
This Youth Month, Food For Mzansi is getting to know some of Mzansi’s leading young farmers! Last week we caught up with North West cattle farmer, Ipeleng Kwadi and this week we are joined by Sinethemba Masinga, vegetable farmer from KwaZulu-Natal.
Join us on Wednesday at 13:30 for our second #FFMLive on Instagram with Sinethemba.
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Farming for new farmers #GatherToGrow
Join us on this week’s #GatherToGrow as we celebrate the future of Mzansi’s agri sector! We chat to farmers, business owners, economists and more about where agri’s future lies. Tune in on Wednesday at 18:00 CAT on Twitter!
Join us every Wednesday at 18:00 for Food For Mzansi #GatherToGrow, for informative chats where people in agriculture share their knowledge.
Follow us at @FoodforMzansi to participate!
Thursday, 16 June
Agricultural negotiations in Geneva
The minister of agriculture, land reform and rural development, Thoko Didiza, will from 12 to 16 June 2022 attend the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference on agricultural negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland.
South Africa’s priority in agricultural negotiations is to achieve a substantial and real reduction of trade distorting domestic support and to ensure sufficient policy space to carry out developmental policies that seek to address poverty, inequality and low economic growth.
For South Africa, the negotiations need to follow a certain sequence with domestic support as a priority. South Africa’s view is that market access negotiations should start once substantial progress has been made with domestic support. This is to ensure that historical imbalances are addressed and the playing field is levelled before engaging in further market access negotiations.
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Friday, 17 June
Farmer-field education
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will be conducting this webinar on the many experiences that have led different governments and other people involved in rural development in West and Central Africa to set up farmers’ field schools and to share the lessons that have been learned from these experiences.
Participants get the knowledge necessary to better their abilities by watching, analysing, and putting new ideas to the test in their respective sectors, which ultimately results in increased productivity and improved living conditions. The FFS process helps individuals, households, and society become more empowered and cohesive.
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