In ensuring a good crop, how you apply crop protection products is just as important as what you apply, and when you apply it. Dr Annabella Baloyi, technical product lead from Syngenta, gives in the latest episode of African Farming (Honey, channel 173, Tuesdays at 17:00) advice on why it is important to apply crop protection correctly, and which factors […]
With help from the WWF Nedbank Green Trust, female farmers in rural communities are improving food production and securing their livelihoods, while expanding South Africa’s protected areas to combat climate change and disasters. Ayanda Cele, the manager of WWF-SA’s land reform and biodiversity stewardship programme, says the Covid-19 pandemic exposed millions of South Africans to […]
James Mothupi believes his small-scale vegetable operation in the Dertig community near Hammanskraal will give him a decent future in his retirement and help solve the community’s problems of hunger, unemployment and poverty. Peter Mashala spoke to James about growing food, starting a farming business and planting the seeds of hope in Dertig. The community […]
A group of nine smallholder farmers from the North West province recently completed practical, hands-on training on potato production. A joint venture between the Agricultural Research Council and the provincial department of agriculture, the programme hopes to help alleviate poverty and joblessness by growing more potatoes. Peter Mashala visited the project. The main aim of […]
Many farmers are specialists in their fields and Rudzani Sadiki, originally from Mokopane, Limpopo, was well on his way to becoming a poultry specialist when circumstances forced him into a completely different farming direction – farming oilseed crops. Not a man to allow change to put him off his stride, Rudzani adapted quickly and applied […]
Every day animals are traded at sale venues across the country. In the formal sector, auction houses manage the livestock trade through their saleyards. Established auction house Vleissentraal holds about 1 700 auctions a year at its facilities, where agents and auctioneers work to get the best prices for buyers and sellers while ensuring the safety […]
Winter is upon us with colder, drier weather in the summer rainfall regions and the winter rains starting in the Western Cape. War in the Ukraine has had some serious consequences for farmers with frightening price increases in animal feed, fuel and fertiliser. But farmers are survivors, capable of making and implementing the type of […]
The value of learning about farming from a young age is inestimable, but unfortunately the policies of the past separated many potential farmers from the generational knowledge that should have been their birthright. Seitshiro Marumoloe was raised by his grandparents, who were small-scale farmers, and exposed to agriculture from his early childhood. He talks to […]
Irrigation farmer Kyle Middleton continuously works on growing the farming operation he runs with his parents, Jacqui and Keith, outside Jacobsdal in the Free State. They have expanded their business by setting goals and taking concrete steps to implement them. However, growth may be more complex than farmers realise and must be controlled to be […]
WHAT’S THE BEST ADVICE YOU’VE BEEN GIVEN? Focus and work with what I have to achieve what I want. Our journeys won’t be the same and we cannot all tell the same story. IF THERE’S ONE THING YOU COULD HAVE DONE DIFFERENTLY, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Nothing, otherwise I wouldn’t have learned from my mistakes. […]
