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| "We saw sunburn damage from temperatures as high as 44 degrees centigrade for two consecutive days, followed by 75ml of rain in two hours during a drought period which led to flooding. Hailstones, the size of my thumbnail, came next... We are experiencing one extreme in climate to the next."read |
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| | | | |  | Tamar Kahn It would take more than 700 years to complete the land restitution process if claims were reopened and processed at the current pace... read | | |  | Robert Laing Chicken should be exempt from value-added tax, poultry producer Astral said. The increase in VAT to 15% in April from the 14% it had been for the past 25 years would hurt consumers who relied on chicken for their main source of protein... read | |  | Southern African countries, jolted by a debilitating avian influenza outbreak in 2017, which left an extensive effect on the region, have reviewed and updated the regional preparedness and response plan... read | |  | The Sunti Golden Sugar Estate will be commissioned on 15 March 2018 and features 17,000 hectares of irrigable farmland and a sugar mill that process 4,500 metric tonnes of sugarcane per day... read | | |  | Ben Belton, Dave Little & Simon Bush Over the past three decades, the global aquaculture industry has risen from obscurity to become a critical source of food for millions of people... read | | |  | The global nature of the seafood industry has resulted in transparency and traceability emerging as key supply chain issues, especially when it comes to combatting the growing threat of illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing... read | | |  | Between 2005 and 2015, natural disasters cost agricultural sectors of developing countries $96bn in damage or lost crop and livestock production, according to FAO's new report... read | | |  | South African wine producers are readying themselves for CapeWine 2018, under the theme \Hannuwa - encapsulating the philosophy of the South African wine industry as a pledge to farming sustainably... read | | | |  | Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs minister Zweli Mkhize has declared the drought and water crisis affecting parts of the country as a national state of disaster... read | | | |
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