# Een van Suid-Afrika se grootste suikerprodusente en landbou-ondernemings, Tongaat Hulett, gaan op 3 November van die Johannesburgse Aandelebeurs gedenoteer word. Die JSE het aangekondig hy gaan na 74 jaar die maatskappy se gewone aandele van sy hoofraad verwyder. Die maatskappy het gesukkel om talle van sy verpligtinge as genoteerde maatskappy na te kom sedert […]
# An American horticulture teacher is hoping to reclaim the world record for growing the heaviest pumpkin after winning his fifth giant-pumpkin competition. Travis Gienger travelled from Minnesota to California with his vegetable which weighed one-thousand-and-83 kilograms, and won the annual contest in Half Moon Bay. The world record was broken in England last week, […]
# One of South Africa’s biggest sugar producers and agricultural businesses, Tongaat Hulett, will be removed from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on 3 November. The JSE announced it had decided to remove the company’s ordinary shares from its main board, ending a listing that dates back 74 years. The company has struggled to meet several […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa sê die hervorming van Suid-Afrika se landbousektor is noodsaaklik vir ekonomiese hervorming en voedselsekerheid. Hy sê in sy weeklikse nuusbrief die regering sal deur sy Proaktiewe Grondverkrygingstrategie ongeveer 2,5-miljoen hektaar staatsgrond aan swart boere beskikbaar stel en van titelaktes voorsien. Hy sê bekostigbare befondsing is noodsaaklik vir opkomende handelsboere om suksesvolle […]
# President Cyril Ramaphosa says the transformation of South Africa’s agricultural sector is both necessary for the broader transformation of the economy and critical to food security. In his weekly newsletter, he says through the Proactive Land Acquisition Strategy, government is releasing approximately 2.5 million hectares of state-owned land to black farmers and providing them […]
# Lamb Champs has announced a new team of ten sheep farmers, known as the Baa-Barians, who will take on Team South Africa in the inaugural Lamb Champs invitational in Pretoria on 31 October. The change follows Namibia’s withdrawal from the competition due to foot-and-mouth disease. Lamb Champs founder and Southern African Agri Initiative CEO […]
# Lamb Champs het ’n nuwe span van tien skaapboere, bekend as die “Baa-Barians“, aangekondig wat op 31 Oktober tydens die eerste Lamb Champs-uitnodigingstoernooi in Pretoria met Span Suid-Afrika sal meeding. Die verandering volg op Namibië se onttrekking aan die kompetisie weens bek-en-klouseer. Die stigter van die kompetisie en uitvoerende hoof van die landbou-organisasie Saai, […]
# Die Minister van Bosbou, Visserye en die Omgewing, David Maynier, het ‘n nuwe nasionale park in die Oos-Kaap geproklameer om grasvelde, biodiversiteit en belangrike waterbronne te beskerm. Die Grasslands-nasionale park beslaan meer as tienduisend hektaar tussen Nqanqarhu en Rhodes. Sanparke sal die park bestuur, waar grondeienaars kan voortgaan met bewaringsvriendelike boerdery-aktiwiteite. Maynier sê dit […]
# Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment minister David Maynier has declared a new national park in the Eastern Cape to protect grasslands, biodiversity and important water sources. The Grasslands National Park covers more than ten-thousand hectares between Nqanqarhu and Rhodes. South African National Parks will manage the park, where landowners can continue conservation-friendly farming activities. […]
