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Through innovation, producers were better-able to survive the current drought than previous droughts. This was according to Wessel Lemmer, senior agricultural economist at Absa, who spoke to Farmer’s Weekly at the Nampo Harvest Day. “The drought […]

Emerging fruit farmers in the Western Cape can look forward to better times, following the establishment of a multi-million rand fund aimed at supporting smallholder farmers to reach commercial status. The R120m fund is a partnership […]

Table grape farmers in the Olifantsriver Vallei in the Western Cape, have suffered losses of over R 100 million as a result of the drought. While the rest of country’s producers saw fair to good crops, […]

South African winter crop farmers are at the planting season, with the National Crop Estimates Committee (CEC) indicating that wheat plantings could slightly decrease by 0,06% from last season, to 481 850ha. Winter wheat crop farmers […]