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Fertiliser prices in Zimbabwe have risen by nearly 30% in that period, with a 50kg bag of basal fertiliser costing an average $45 and a bag of top dressing fertiliser about $60, said Prince Kuipa, operations director the Zimbabwe Farmers Union. The union, which represents most of the country’s farmers, said high fertiliser prices could affect crop output despite favourable rains in the maize-growing region. “The number of [fertiliser] bags that farmers can buy has been badly affected,” Kuipa said.The Zimbabwean government has a long-running input support scheme to help with costs. It increased the number of smallholder farmers covered by the scheme by 25% to 2.89-million during the 2022/2023 season, hoping to help more households cope with rising food inflation.
Verlede week se provinsiale verkiesing in Nederland het vir ʼn opskudding gesorg. Die BoerBurgerBeweging (BBB), ʼn politieke party wat net meer as drie jaar gelede gestig is en wat uitgesproke ten gunste van die belange van plattelandse kiesers is, het in elkeen van Nederland se 12 provinsies in die eerste plek geëindig. Die party is uit protes teen die politieke elite in Nederland gebore en verlede Woensdag het meer as een miljoen Nederlandse kiesers vir ʼn politieke opskudding gesorg deur dié nuwe protesparty die grootste party in Nederland te maak.
Rebuilding Ukraine’s economy after Russia’s invasion more than a year ago is now expected to cost $411bn, 2.6 times Ukraine’s expected 2022 GDP, a new study by the World Bank, UN, European Commission and Ukraine found. The estimate released on Wednesday covers the period spanning one year from Russia’s invasion on February 24 2022 and quantifies the direct physical damage to infrastructure and buildings, the impact on people’s lives and livelihoods and the cost to “build back better”, the World Bank said.
According to Dr Telané Greyling, who studied the behaviour of the Namib wild horses extensively and has monitored the horses continuously for 28 years, the Namib horses adapted their behaviour to ensure their survival in the desert, allowing a certain amount of dehydration. This condition would severely stress a domesticated horse.
DAP prices in Europe lost another $5/t this week but at $750/t, European DAP prices remain the most expensive anywhere, a good $130-150/t more expensive than other regions. With considerable stocks already in place and no demand, the opportunity for European players to force the price down by purchasing import cargoes is very limited. European importers cannot find customers for any meaningful volumes and would be risking increasing the size of their open DAP positions by importing more cargoes. READ MORE
OBP het reeds verlede jaar in die Parlement gesê hy sukkel as gevolg van bestuurdprobleme, beurtkrag en die instandhouding van toerusting om genoeg entstowwe te vervaardig. OBP moes ook weens beurtkrag van die entstowwe vernietig omdat die koueketting verbreek is.Aanvanklik sou hy teen Februarie genoeg entstof lewer maar Vrydag het die verkoopsafdeling bevestig dat daar steeds 'n tekort is.
Global warming above 1.5˚C will, for example, make it difficult to grow wheat in SA in existing grain regions.Despite an urgent need for action, global policy and related implementation to cut harmful emissions and put in place adaptation measures that will increase resilience to climate change are still falling short of governments’ commitments. READ MORE
A new law, though, that empowered the state more freely to confiscate property would be most necessary. This is what the Expropriation Bill does. As the IRR has noted previously, a key concern is that the bill defines expropriation in a manner that requires the state actively to take over the property as an owner. READ MORE
Maandag se mislukte poging deur die EFF om mense se lewens te ontwrig, maak dit duidelik dat die groter meerderheid van die landsburgers nie die EFF se radikale sieninge deel nie. Die party het ook gemeenskappe se gereedheid om hul gebiede te beveilig onderskat. Sakelui, politieke partye en burgerlike organisasies meen almal dat ondanks die miljoene rande wat die EFF se nasionale stilstand die land se ekonomie gekos het, die politieke impak daarvan minimaal was. Die ANC het Suid Afrika in die afgelope 30 jaar tot in die gond bestuur en besteel. Die EFF sal ons land die finale doodslag gee as ons nie daadwerklik opstaan en ophou om net na alles te kyk en dit soos 'n KykNet sepie te volg nie.
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Women in agriculture deserves recognition. These women are in most cases graduated or with some form of post-school tertiary qualification and a leader in hear community, church, at the local school, clinic and plays a role in keeping the daily activities on the farm, running.A Women who forms part of the decision making on the farm, support her husband to adapt to the changes in weather, government rules, managing the finances of the farm as a business.A Women who offers an input before agricultural meetings and conferences. This Women has a direct input in the management of the farm and allows her husband to be a farmer and allows him to farm. A Women without a platform to raise her own voice.The reality is that men as farmers compete in competitions, wins luxury vehicles and invited to international agricultural trade and study tours, but never such an opportunity for women in agriculture.
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South Africa's agriculture is currently faced with an array of challenges ranging from the high cost of production as inputs costs are high, lower output prices for many horticultural commodities, failing local infrastructure, high shipping and freight costs and recently continued accelerated load shedding.
The African National Congress used its majority in parliament on Thursday evening to vote against establishing an ad-hoc committee to probe allegations of rampant corruption and criminal cartels operating at Eskom that allegedly involve high-ranking ANC politicians.
By 2030, the planet will be generating at least 5bn tonnes of poo each year, with the vast majority being deposited by livestock. 80% of farms in the Netherlands already producing more cow dung than they can legally use as fertiliser, and China resorting to drastic measures to try to reduce the amount of manure being discharged into rivers, this is a major environment and health challenge.
Die Pluimveeprodusente-vereniging is positief oor die pluimveebedryf in Namibië. Hulle onlangse tweede pluimvee-toer in samewerking met AgriBank is deur sowat 350 mense in die streke van Karas, Hardap en Khoma bygewoon en die jeug was goed verteenwoordig. Daar is ‘n groot gaping in kommersiële en opkomende pluimvee-boere.
The macadamia tree, Macadamia integrifolia, is considered an ‘ecological giant’ in commercial agriculture in the horticultural sector. This may be ascribed to its efficiency to optimise water consumption, sequester carbon from the atmosphere, absorb phosphates and recycle organic waste material.
The recent February 2023 consumer price inflation (CPI) outcome showed a further acceleration to 7% y/y underpinned by gains in food and non-alcoholic beverages, housing and utilities, transport, and miscellaneous goods and services.
TLU SA has asked the European Union to impose a travel ban on President Cyril Ramaphosa and his colleagues and to freeze any of their assets in Europe.
The lack of regulations over terminology for alternative protein products is causing confusion about food labels worldwide and has already led to several court cases in South Africa.
Over the last year or so, Total Energies and Shell have been seriously exploring the potential for oil and gas in Namibia. HOW ARE OIL AND GAS FORMED?When a living organism dies, it is generally recycled in one of two ways:
The Competition Commission launched its fresh market inquiry into the economy of fruit and vegetables in a briefing on Thursday, saying it feels the costs and volatility of certain foodstuff prices are not fully understood.
Currently, the Expropriation Bill is before the National Council of Provinces (a part of Parliament whose activities are doubly obscure to the public). Public comment on the matter closed last week, and it now remains for the bill to be processed through in this forum.
In the Hex River Valley grape growers are warily watching threatening skies, again, as yet more rain is predicted for the Western Cape.
“Die mensdom beweeg op dun ys en daardie ys smelt vinnig. Dit is duideliker as ooit dat menslike aktiwiteite die afgelope 200 jaar byna uitsluitlik verantwoordelik is vir die verhitting van die aarde. “Tog het die mens die instrumente om klimaatsverandering te stuit, maar die politieke wil ontbreek.”
’n Groot bekommernis in die primêre melkbedryf en melkwaardeketting is dat melkproduksie sedert 2018 op ongeveer dieselfde vlakke bly. Mnr. Bertus van Heerden, hoofekonoom van die Melkprodusente-organisasie (MPO), sê onverwerkte melkproduksie in Suid-Afrika het in 2018 tot 3,4 miljoen ton gestyg, maar sedertdien het die vlakke redelik sywaarts beweeg, en in 2021 selfs met 2% gedaal
"It is as if Cosatu every now and then realises they need something to get exposure and to gain political support and then decides to make inflammatory statements about something they know their supporters will support, like farmers being murderers, racists and rapists, without thinking of the real consequences it has for farmers," said Bennie van Zyl, general manager of TLU SA.
Die direkteur van die Land- en Water-afdeling van die Voedsel- en Landbou-organisasie, Li Lifeng, sê klimaatsverandering en wêreldwye bevolkingsgroei vererger die waterskaarste.
Die feit dat fossiel brandstof soos steenkool, olie en gas oor dekades bewys gelewer het van hul doeltreffendheid, is dit weens aard verwarming en klimaat verandering, nie meer so gewild in die Eerste Wêreld lande nie.
Die landboukenner en voormalige hoof van die landbou-afdeling by die Ekonomiese Gemeenskap van die Kommissie van Wes-Afrikaanse State, Ernest Aubee, sê landbou is die enjin van groei vir die transformasie van die vasteland. Aubee sê landbou-beleide moet daarop gerig wees om produksie en produktiwiteit te verhoog deur uitdagings in die sektor aan te spreek.
Statistic South Africa’s latest update on the country’s is that headline inflation accelerated to 7% y/y in February 2023 underpinned food and non-alcoholic beverages, housing and utilities, transport, and miscellaneous goods and services. This follows a slowdown to 6.9% y/y in January 2023 from 7.4% and 7.2% respectively in November and December 2022.
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