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Marike Brits The South African market is largely driven by exports and, as demand increases, we have seen hectares under macadamias trees increasing rapidly in South Africa's macadamia growing areas...read | 
As wine grape producers and cellars take in the last of the 2018 wine grape harvest, viticulturists and cellars estimate that it will be the smallest crop since 2005. Vinpro's viticulturists give an overview of the regions...read |
| | |  | Nina Moeller & Michel Pimbert Business as usual is no longer an option for food and agriculture. The global agriculture system will have to be radically transformed to avoid further environmental and social problems... read | | |  | Esther Ngumbi The increasing occurrence and severity of extreme weather events linked to climate change necessitate all stakeholders involved in agriculture to ramp up their efforts of making sure that newer agricultural innovations and technologies are available to farmers... read | | |  | Bekezela Phakathi DAFF has called on poultry farmers in coastal areas to be on high alert and improve their biosecurity amid fears of a fresh outbreak of the deadly avian flu after the spread of H5N8 avian flu to African penguins along the coast of the Western Cape... read | | |  | Bain's Cape Mountain Whisky has been awarded the title of World's Best Grain Whisky and founder distiller, Andy Watts, awarded the title as the global Icon of Whisky Master Distiller/Master Blender... read | | |  | A skills inventory and needs analysis for the aquaculture sector has revealed an urgent need for both generic skills and aquaculture-specific technical skills to better equip workers and farmers in taking the industry forward... read | | |  | Official food inflation decelerated to 3.9% during February 2018, year-on-year, from 4.5% reported in January 2018, as a result of a decline in agricultural commodity prices from higher output levels of the previous production season... read | | |  | In a 'best practice step to commercialise homegrown cultivars' locally and internationally, a new agreement has been signed between Culdevco and the Agricultural Research Council for a further 10-year period... read | | |  | Prof Abbas El-Zein Land degradation can take many forms, but always entails a serious disruption of a healthy balance between five key ecosystem functions. These are: food production, fibre provision, microclimate regulation, water retention, and carbon storage... read | | | |  | Jesse Weinberg The smartphone has perhaps become one of the greatest gifts to an entrepreneur looking to launch a business on little to no seed capital... read | | | |
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