Bell aircraft used to safeguard food and agriculture amid historic locust infestation
In
the last 12 months, food security has been under serious threat from
devastating swarms of locusts, destroying crops from East Africa to the...
BKT Stories: choosing the right equipment to work 350,000 sq.m. of agricultural land
A great
(BKT) story about the Antonissen family, who for three generations has been
growing potatoes in Steenbergen, an agricultural area in the South...
Dodge ISN spherical roller bearings from BI take the guesswork out of mounting
The Dodge ISN Safety Mount spherical roller bearings from ABB is distributed by BI
The Dodge ISN Safety...
Vodacom Women Farmers Programme is growing from strength to strength
Produce stand at the launch event in August 2019
To assist in the transformation of South...
Storage Project Set to Reduce Post-Harvest Loss in Tanzania
Seventeen crop storage schemes with a
capacity of over 80,000 tonnes in ten different points countrywide are being
built to reduce post-harvest losses estimated...
Namibian government seeks US $2m to contain locust outbreak
Bernard DUPONT/Wikimedia Commons
The government of Namibia needs an estimated US $2m to contain the locust outbreak in the...
Kenya horticulture exporters fight to secure markets during Covid-19
Flying out for Kenya : National carrier Kenya Airways collapsed passenger seats to airlift Kenya horticulture produce to Europe as industry...
Migrating seasonal workers may soon take up full-time employment
Agriculture, and fruit growers in particular,
have seasonal peaks where additional staff are required to pick the orchards
and fields before the produce dies...
Meet Africa’s demand for advanced agricultural equipment!
With over 60 percent of the population of sub-Saharan
Africa smallholder farmers, and about 23 percent of sub-Saharan Africa's GDP
coming from agriculture, the...
As the SARB steadies, low rates continue to spur confidence in agriculture
Comment by Paul Makube, Senior Agricultural Economist at FNB
Agri-Business
After cutting the repo rate by 300 basis points so...