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Die rand is bekend daarvoor dat hy op internasionale gebeure reageer en het verwikkelinge in die Amerikaanse finansiële mark ook vanjaar reeds ʼn groot invloed op die geldeenheid gehad.  Suid Afrika se handelsbalans nog een van die katalisators is wat die rand kan beïnvloed. Dat ‘n beduidende handelstekort druk op ‘n land se geldeenheid kan plaas. As ʼn land meer goedere en dienste invoer as uitvoer is daar ʼn groter vraag na buitelandse geldeenhede wat lei tot depresiasie van die binnelandse geldeenheid. Suid-Afrika het in die afgelope tien jaar verskeie kere handelstekorte beleef wat druk geplaas het op die rand. Suid-Afrika is ʼn groot uitvoerder van kommoditeite soos goud, platinum en steenkool. Die rand se waarde word ook beïnvloed deur die verandering in internasionale kommoditeitspryse. “As kommoditeitspryse daal, kan dit Suid-Afrika se uitvoerinkomste, handelsbalans en die algehele waarde van die rand negatief beïnvloed.

Foreign investors have sold a net $10.5 billion (~R204 billion) of South African government bonds this year, adding to $15.9 billion (~R309 billion) of net sales last year. Non-residents held just 26% of government bonds at the end of April, down from a high of 43% in March 2018.Meanwhile, government borrowing costs have surged. The generic 10-year yield climbed to a three-year high of 12.18% on Friday, compared with about 9.05% in February 2018. The rand has lost 39% of its value over the period, the worst performance among major emerging-market currencies after the Turkish lira and Argentine peso. Options traders assign an 85% chance to the rand weakening to below 20 per dollar this year.  South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has lost the confidence of a key constituency.

Karpowership is in the process of submitting applications for environmental approvals to the Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment for the operation of a 450-megawatt powership in the northeastern port of Richards Bay and a 320-megawatt plant in the western port of Saldanha. A 450-megawatt plant is slated for the Port of Ngqura. Karpowership’s plans, which were initially supposed to be implemented by August last year, have also been slowed by lawsuits and challenges from environmentalists. The terms of the emergency power tender gave Karpowership and other bid winners 20-year supply contracts, attracting the ire of environmentalists who said South Africa would be locked into using a fossil fuel for their duration.

Die nuwe wysigingswet bepaal dat ondernemings vyf jaar het om die teikens te bereik. Indien nie, kan hulle boetes van 10% van hul omset opgelê word of verbied word om met die regering sake te doen. Navorsing deur die Solidariteit Navorsingsinstituut (SNI) wys egter vele absurditeite in die teikens uit:

• Geen bruin mense in sektore soos landbou, bosbou en visserye, vervaardiging, finansies of die kunste mag aangestel word in Limpopo, Mpumalanga en Noordwes nie; en
• Slegs 0,1% van die arbeidsmag van ondernemings in Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Noordwes, die Noord-, Wes- en Oos-Kaap mag Indiërs wees. ’n Onderneming met 50 werknemers sal dus die wet oortree die oomblik as hulle ’n Indiër-werker in diens neem. Die SNI se voorlopige verslag het verder gegaan en volgens die konsepregulasies se teikens, die Kommissie vir Diensbillikheid se jongste verslag en die jongste arbeidsmagpeilings gebruik om ’n moontlike uitwerking op die hele arbeidsmag te voorspel. Daarvolgens sal dit beteken dat daar landwyd 71 518 bruin mense, 116 934 Indiërs en 404 608 wit mense “te veel” in die arbeidsmag is en wat dus hul werk binne die volgende vyf jaar sal verloor.

The 2022/2023 season will be remembered for the dry and warmer winter, generally good growing conditions during the vegetative growth phase, good rain shortly before véraison which benefited quality, and a cool and wet ripening period which gave grapes a chance to ripen optimally at a slower rate. READ MORE =

Cropland can change significantly over time due to factors like crop rotation or market pressures. Maps that account for in-season changes are thus ideal for our purposes, however these tend to be rarer.  READ MORE 

Researchers who are using Numerical Weather Prediction data could also make use of these results to verify that the models they employ capture the current situation accurately, thereby placing a higher value on the reliability of projections in the future. READ MORE 

Landbou se Nampo koors is gebreek en nou kan daar weer gewerk word.  Duisende mense het die 4 dae gaan ontspan in die Vrystaat en goeie besigheid is gedoen. Daar is dalk te veel mense vir die spasie wat tans beskikbaar is.  Miljoene rande word spandeer op die uitstallings en daar is altyd 'n paar landbouers wat deur die jare hulle aankope van trekkers op Nampo bevestig . Al die video programme wat gemaak is op Nampo en geplaas is op Sosiale media en U Tube is nie baie na gekyk nie.  Die koste om die programme te vervaardig is miljoene rande en kan nie ander as om te dink of dit dit die moeite werd is 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 has lost its two main levers of economic development: public investment in physical and social infrastructure (think China, which invests almost 20% of its GDP per year) and a Schumpeter-like creative destruction process through which obsolete firms are replaced by innovative ones (think IBM and Microsoft).

More than half of the world's large lakes and reservoirs have shrunk since the early 1990s, chiefly because of climate change, intensifying concerns about water for agriculture, hydropower and human consumption, a new study has found.

Urea prices slid down this week as producers show willingness to negotiate with buyers as the IFA annual conference kicks off next week. IFA is the primary global fertilizer conference and participants are anticipating a number of deals to be done during the course of this event.

The government is making it harder for the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) to fight inflation due to the effects of ongoing load-shedding on the economy and general economic underperformance. The SARB governor Lesetja Kganyago shared this information during a lecture at the University of Johannesburg last week.

South African cherry orchards are currently in a dormant phase after a very good production season. Retailers are importing limited amounts of cherries. “It was an exceptional season for our fruit after a spring that was warmer and offered more heat units than in the previous season,” says a cherry producer. “Fruit sizing was really good as a result of orchard practices we’d undertaken.”

Retail sales fell for a fourth consecutive quarter in South Africa, signifying the effects of an increasingly difficult economic climate. This is becoming more apparent as household belts are getting uncomfortably tight with scaled-back spending.

Nampo is an agricultural trade show where stakeholders from technology developers to start-ups, agricultural financiers, biotechnology companies, insurance companies, agricultural retailers and others gather to showcase new industry developments and informally interact with clients and potential partners.

The 2023 wine grape harvest is estimated at 1180093 tones, according to the latest harvest estimate by industry body SAWIS (South African Wine Industry Information and Systems) on 12 May 2023. This is 14.2% smaller than the 2022 harvest.

Researchers found that good agricultural and land policies, farmer driven incentives and the involvement of the grassroot players in the coffee value chain has driven the success of coffee in Vietnam. What can African countries pick from this boom and still avoid the environmental pitfalls that came with it in Vietnam?

Global food security is facing increased pressure from a changing climate and a growing population. Certain crops play a major role in feeding the world. Commonly called commodity crops, these include maize, wheat, soybeans, and rice.

These anti-dumping duties fell away in January, but were reintroduced yesterday after the International Trade and Administration Commission (ITAC) found that frozen potato chip imports from these countries were undercutting and harming the local industry by selling the product below their domestic market values or their average cost of production.

Die minister van Landbou, Grondhervorming en Landelike Ontwikkeling, Thoko Didiza, en twee lede van die uitvoerende raad in die Vrystaat het NAMPO2023 vandag besoek om te praat oor paaie en veiligheid. Praat is ongelukkig reeds verby- Dis die een belofte op die ander

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