Sustainable food production – why context matters
Agriculture is a major sector in South Africa that also relies heavily on the exports of agricultural commodities. Yet, our producers keep facing increased challenges to feed the growing population, both directly in terms...
SA soybean success story
The expansion of South Africa’s soybean industry is a success story that has led to more sustainable and profitable cultivation and crop rotation practices, processing capacity, and the substitution of imported soybean oil cake...
POLICY: Influencing the future of agricultural research
Adequate investment in South Africa’s agricultural research and development (R&D) is critical in enabling the sector to perform its multifunctional role within the economy effectively. This is the gist of a paper that was...
Jan taks bied verdere belastingverligting vir hernubare krag
Die Minister van Finansies, Enoch Godongwana, het in sy nasionale begrotingstoespraak vir 2023 ’n uitbreiding van belastingaansporings vir besighede en individue wat van hernubare energie gebruik wil maak, aangekondig.
Daar word beoog om hierdie aansporing...
Bly binne die wet met kamera monitering
Verskeie boereverenigings fokus daarop om kamerastelsels op te rig as ’n misdaadafskrikmiddel en opsporingsmeganisme om sodoende beweging in afgeleë gebiede te monitor, verdagte voertuie en persone te identifiseer en om aan die polisie inligting...
Kwaliteitsaad kan Afrika ’n hupstoot gee
Toegang tot die nuutste tegnologie en kwaliteitsaad kan ’n noemenswaardige rol speel om voedselsekerheid te verseker. By die Wêreldsaadkongres wat onlangs in Kaapstad gehou is, is indringende gesprekke gevoer oor hoe belangrik toegang tot...
Fertiliser quality on the right track
In 2017 a memorandum of understanding for the funding and management of this fertiliser and lime quality monitoring project was entered into by and between the then Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, the...
Fertasa focuses on challenges in uncertain times
The 63rd annual congress of the Fertilizer Association of Southern Africa (Fertasa) was held at the CSIR International Convention Centre in Pretoria on 20 April 2023. The relevant topics and the theme – ‘Dealing...
Globale kragkrisis stimuleer innovasie
Produsente landswyd is dit eens dat dit die moeite werd is om alternatiewe bronne van elektrisiteit in te span – ongeag van die grootte van die boerdery of tipe opwekkingstelsel.
Dit is egter noodsaaklik om...
Aanpasbaarheid onder die loep by Nasie in Gesprek
Verskeie hoogs insiggewende gesprekke en paneelbesprekings is tydens NAMPO by Nasie in Gesprek op NAMPO Park aangebied. Die tema, “Verander of sneuwel”, het die tafel gedek vir gesprekke oor onder andere klimaatsverandering, voedselsekerheid en...
