KLIMAATSLIM-LANDBOU is sleutel tot voedselsekerheid
August 2018
ELIZABETH BOTHA, SA Graan/Grain medewerker
Alles moet in die stryd gewerp word om voedselsekerheid in Suid-Afrika deur klimaatslim-landbou te promoveer en só ekonomiese groei te bevorder, aldus dr Brylyne Chitsunge, die Pan-Afrika Parlement se ambassadeur vir...
Agri SA “phakisa” met plan vir plaaswerkers
August 2018
MARLEEN SMITH, SA Graan/Grain medewerker
Enigeen wat nie besef hoe landbou se werkerskorps afneem nie, hoef maar net deur die platteland van die somersaaigebiede te ry. Daar sal hul al die eens netjiese werkershuise van twee...
Wheat: Breeding the future
July 2018
WILLEM BOTES, senior lecturer and head: Plant Breeding Laboratory, Stellenbosch University and research leader for the DST-Grain SA National Wheat Breeding Platform
The Winter Cereal Trust and Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme...
REITZ-KONFERENSIE fokus op herlewing
July 2018
PIETMAN BOTHA, SA Graan/Grain redaksiespan
‘n Studiegroep wat fokus op ‘n beter toekoms en wat navorsing vir hulle laat werk. Dít het aanleiding gegee tot die Landbouweekblad Herlewingslandboukonferensie wat jaarliks op Reitz in die Oos-Vrystaat aangebied word.
“Ek hou...
The INEFFICIENT producer? Questioning the South African wheat value chain’s core competitiveness
June 2018
MICHAEL DAY, managing director, AfriValue Consulting; research conducted in fulfilment of MSc (Agric), Agricultural Economics at Stellenbosch University
The term ‘competitiveness’ is best understood as the ability of a sector, industry, firm or farm...
Laboratory achieves OECD GLP compliance
June 2018
WIANA LOUW, general manager, SAGL
The Southern African Grain Laboratory (SAGL)’s Crop Protection test facility achieved OECD Good Laboratory Practice compliance during July last year. This means that results of studies conducted at the...
The dual environmental system: Not a level playing field
May 2018
JANSE RABIE, head: Natural Resources, Agri SA
While the commencement of the One Environmental System in terms of South Africa’s National Environmental Management Act confirmed the environmental governance of the country’s mining sector in...
South Africa: This land is our land
May 2018
In late 2017 South Africa came close to a ‘tipping point’ that could well have resulted in an economic meltdown and widespread unrest. The ANC is now deeply divided. On the one hand,...
Quality of the 2016/2017 sunflower crop in the spotlight
May 2018
JOLANDA NORTJÉ, manager: Laboratory, Southern African Grain Laboratory NPC
The 2016/2017 sunflower crop quality survey is the fifth annual survey performed by the Southern African Grain Laboratory (SAGL). The goal of this survey is...
Gesoute saadman groet die bedryf
May 2018
VALERIE CILLIERS, SA Graan/Grain medewerker
As ‘n jong gegradueerde, met ‘n BSc Agric-graad agter sy naam, het mnr Willem Engelbrecht in 1975 die eerste nasionale sonneblomkultivarevaluasieproewe in Suid-Afrika geplant en in sy meer as 40 jaar...
