Agriculture proves to be a heavy lifter
Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural Economist at FNB Business
On the back of a devastating drought in South Africa’s biggest agriculture region, the...
Global cereal output heading for a record
Following a better-than-expected harvest, the 2017/2018 marketing season should end with record inventory levels for wheat and maize. According to FAO's new Cereal Supply...
How Nigeria’s Thrive Agric is crowdfunding farmers
Nigerian startup Thrive Agric is using a crowdfunding platform to provide farmers with the finance they need to grow their businesses and offer ordinary...
Zimbabwe in the dark on land usage
Nqobile Bhebhe
ZIMBABWE has no consolidated data base on land allocated to 'new farmers' under the fast track land distribution and its current utilisation capacity, a...